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Workshop leader Liana Conyers teaching and leading West African dances.

West African Dance workshop leader Liana Conyers, teaching as part of the 2013 Cultural Legacy Festival workshop series.

Culantro and anise stars, two cooking herbs used in Puerto Rico that can be found and used in NJ

Angela Lugo presenting the workshop “Herbal Healing from the Island of Puerto Rico”

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.

Workshop presenter Angela Lugo discusses the health benefits of a range of Caribbean cooking herbs that can be obtained in NJ where the workshop was held.

Newsletter excerpt about the Raíces Cultural Center Natural Arts workshop series on Herbal Healing

Workshop participants got to sample food and drinks made with herbs.

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.

Shelling black beans.

Harvest of tomatoes, carrots, beets and black beans

Summer harvest of carrots and green onion.

Bomba performance by the Raícitas Youth Program participants. Illustrates bomba dance, a conversation between the dancer and the drummer.

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.