Browse Items (2121 total)

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.

First fig fruits on our fig tree.

Baby beans in rows.

Snapdragon flower.

Beans were planted all over both garden plots.

Cucumber harvest.

Tomatoes on the vine.

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

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.

Beetroot, the leaves are also edible.

Cucumber growing on the vine.

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

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.

Cabbage

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

Bed of lettuce.

Black beans beginning to grow in the mound.

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

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

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

Baby zucchini with blossom.

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

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

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.