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Baby zucchini with blossom.

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

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

Cabbage

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.

Beetroot, the leaves are also edible.

Red cabbage. They grew so well, we plan to plant them again in 2012, plant an even greater amount and ferment them for homemade sauerkraut.

Purslane is known as a weed, but is edible and nutritious. It is good raw, as in salads, as well as cooked.

Tomatoes on the vine.

Cucumber harvest.

Beans were planted all over both garden plots.

Snapdragon flower.

Baby beans in rows.

First fig fruits on our fig tree.

Collage of sequences from the Raíces Cultural Center 2010 production “The Spirit of the Drum”. Depicts some of the rhythms, songs and movements of the orishas Elegua, Yemayá, Changó and Oyá as well as the traditions of batárumba, palo and carnival.

Summer harvest of carrots and green onion.

Harvest of tomatoes, carrots, beets and black beans

Shelling black beans.

From the workshop “Herbal Healing from the Island of Puerto Rico”. Presenter, herbalist and healer Angela Lugo speaks about her experiences with healing and healers.