Thank you to all of our family, friends, and supporters who nominated Raíces EcoCulture to receive our third annual donation of heirloom, organic and non-gmo seeds from the Hudson Valley Seed Library.
DIY Fridays
Building a worm bin is simple, a great starter do it yourself project for a homestead, whether rural or urban. Vermicomposting requires very little work to produce rich, natural fertilizer for your gardens and process your food waste. Check out how on our D.I.Y. Friday column.
D.I.Y. Fridays – Build Your Own Worm Bin
Follow these simple instructions to preserve herbs harvested fresh from your own garden or from your local farmers market.
D.I.Y. Fridays – Preserving the Harvest: Homemade Salted Herbs
by Nicole Wines Nature Therapy is one of the easiest ways to promote healing. This will probably be the simplest instruction set in our D.I.Y. Fridays series to date and it doesn’t cost anything! Here goes: Slow down Take a break Get outside! Mother Nature is a powerful healer, for […]
D.I.Y. Fridays – Nature Therapy: Get Outside!
by Nicole Wines This week’s D.I.Y. Friday is just a quick tip for all of you who are conscious about reusing and repurposing materials, supplies and resources. There are countless uses for upcycled jars. I use them to store and share honey, herbs, and bulk foods, to make and store […]
D.I.Y. Fridays – Upcycling Tip: Removing Labels from Jars for ...
by Nicole Wines Every fall the Raíces EcoCulture crew plants our garlic. We usually use “el día de los muertos” (Day of the Dead) as our marker and try to get it in on that day or soon after. This year, we waited until the Friday after the Day of […]
D.I.Y. Fridays – Planting and Saving Garlic
by Nicole Wines Recycling, upcycling, repurposing…whatever you want to call it, we are always looking for ways to reuse materials that would normally be thrown away to help keep our impact on the waste stream low. Although I’m not personally a big fan of buying produce that comes in plastic […]
D.I.Y. Fridays – Starting Seeds in Recycled Produce Containers
by Nicole Wines This week’s D.I.Y. is a simple step-by-step tutorial on making your own calendula infused oil. We grow calendula in all of the Raíces EcoCulture garden plots so the blooms are always in abundance. We only remove flowers from about half of our plants and leave the remaining […]
D.I.Y. Fridays – Calendula Infused Oil
by Nicole Wines At Raíces EcoCulture, we try to stay conscious about reducing the waste stream. Whenever possible, we find second uses for materials that would otherwise be looked at as “garbage”. We upcycle and repurpose as much as we can. Just like last week’s D.I.Y. post on homemade incense […]
D.I.Y. Fridays – Homemade, All-Natural Eggshell Fertilizer
by Nicole Wines NOTE: I learned this simple D.I.Y. from my co-director Francisco and his family, and I am sharing it with you. Please pass it along, by sharing this post and simple instructions, and making this homemade incense to use in your own home and give away as handmade […]