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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.

Dancing hip hop movements to the bomba drums, a conversation where each movement creates a response from the drum.

Bomba from Puerto Rico meets hop hop from India.

Participants in the cultural exchange workshop learned Cuban orisha movements and rhythms.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.

Visitors came from Zimbabwe, Uganda, India, Burma and Pakistan

Early spring harvest of radishes, peas and mint.

Baby lettuce

Saint Johnswort beginning to bloom.

Prepared beds in the early spring. Green beans, black beans, basil, tomatoes, beets, cabbage and herbs later filled up these plots.

The great pollenators, bee pollenating a thornless black raspberry flower.

Raíces micro farm plots.

2011 was the year the deer discovered our gardens. After six years of planting out in the open, we had to put up a fence.

Beans planted in mounds. The empty mound would soon be covered in black bean plants.

A friend of Raíces donated a few trays worth of herb seedlings to plant. Good for teas, cooking and for the bees.

Baby zucchini with blossom.

Green beans were planted every two weeks providing us with fresh, crisp, refreshing green beans all summer long.

Hibiscus blossom-beautiful and good to dry for tea. Cooling, refreshing and high in Vitamin C.

Cabbage

Wild thyme (purple) and St. John’s Wort (yellow)

Harvest of cucumbers, kale, wild thyme, St. John’s wort flowers, radishes and green beans.

Black beans beginning to grow in the mound.

Bed of lettuce.

Hibiscus blossons-No flowers were harvested for tea in 2011. The plant had been recently transplanted and was left to grow naturally for the season. In 2012, we plan to dry the flowers for tea.

Borage, an edible flower with a taste similar to cucumber.

Cucumber growing on the vine.