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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)

Cabbage

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

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.

The great pollenators, bee pollenating a thornless black raspberry flower.

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

Saint Johnswort beginning to bloom.

Baby lettuce

Early spring harvest of radishes, peas and mint.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.

Visitors came from Zimbabwe, Uganda, India, Burma and Pakistan

Participants in the cultural exchange workshop learned Cuban orisha movements and rhythms.

Bomba from Puerto Rico meets hop hop from India.

Dancing hip hop movements to the bomba drums, a conversation where each movement creates a response from the drum.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.

Video clip from the 2009 Raíces fact finding exchange trip to Puerto Rico

Newsletter excerpt about the Raíces Cultural Center 2011 production "Spirit of the Drum."

Sean Battle, a performing arts intern at Raíces in 2010 wrote original poems in honor of the Orishas for the Spirit of the Drum production, while also resarching, studying and learning the history, rhythms, songs and movements associated with the…