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

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

Early spring harvest of radishes, peas and mint.

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

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

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

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.

Bed of lettuce.

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.

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

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.

Shelling black beans.

Snapdragon flower.

Saint Johnswort beginning to bloom.

Tomatoes on the vine.

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

Baby zucchini with blossom.

Volunteer sorting garbage collected during the Water Is Life Initiative "Our Plastic Waters" eco-art workshop Raritan River clean up. The garbage collected was later turned into eco-art sculptures by the program participants.

Volunteers from the Highland Park High School Environmental Club work on eco-art sculptures created from garbage collected from the Raritan River waterfront.

In a one block stroll Steve Maldonado Silvestrini was able to identify several species of edible and medicinal wild plants growing wild in the neighborhood.

The Water Is Life exhibit series intended to bring attention to the plight of the waters through the arts. One of the submissions that helped to accomplish this was the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea display, featuring a model seak vaka - an…

"Plenitud Puerto Rico is a non-profit educational farm and learning center that focuses on the research, demonstration, and dissemination of sustainable practices for today’s rural and urban environment." (plenitudpr.org) This building is the…

Pepe plays the charango. This is another staple in Andean Music. It is a small guitar made up of ten strings. The back of a charango is the shell of an armadillo.

We passed by where the Departamento de la Comida restaurant and local food farmer’s market used to be before Hurricane Maria. The restaurant and market were put on hold to create the PR Resiliency Fund project, which will support at least 200…