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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.

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

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.

Baby zucchini with blossom.

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

Tomatoes on the vine.

Saint Johnswort beginning to bloom.

Snapdragon flower.

Shelling black beans.

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.

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

Raíces micro farm plots.

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.

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

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

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

Early spring harvest of radishes, peas and mint.

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

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

Baby beans in rows.

First fig fruits on our fig tree.

Harvest of tomatoes, carrots, beets and black beans

Cucumber harvest.