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by Nicole Wines We have moved on from lettuce salads to sauteed kale, homemade pickles and an diversity of beans. Tomato vines are bursting with green tomatoes and we will be making sauce, salsa and tomato sandwiches soon. Herbal medicines are steeping and being prepared almost daily. The flowers continue […]

EcoCulture Garden Update – Abundance – July 28, 2018

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The Raíces EcoCulture Gardens are alive with blossoms and pollinators. Check out our photo gallery to see what is blooming the week of July 7, 2018.

EcoCulture Garden Update – Pollinators In Action – July 7, ...

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Check out the photo gallery from Raíces EcoCulture's Intro to Seed Saving Workshop with Rachel Dawn Davis in Highland Park, NJ, May 21, 2017.

Photo Gallery: Intro to Seed Saving Workshop

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GROW YOUR OWN Raíces Eco-Culture is holding its annual seedling sale so our community members and neighbors can grow their own food while supporting Raíces Eco-Culture programs. This year we focused on tomatoes and herbs, both culinary and medicinal. All seedlings are organically grown and have not been sprayed or […]

Raíces Seedling Sale Fundraiser 2017

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by Nicole Wines The 2017 gardening season is off to a great start. Thanks to a new collaboration with the Sustainable Highland Park Committee, the Raíces EcoCulture Seed Library has a new homebase at the Eugene Young Environmental Education Center in Highland Park, NJ. We had our first meetings for […]

Photo Gallery: Raíces Seed Library Orientation Meetings 2017

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By saving seed, whether it is one variety or one hundred varieties, members of the Raíces EcoCulture seed library are helping to build a culture of seed freedom and seed sovereignty. Check out some photos submitted by some of our members highlighting their growing and seed saving endeavors in the 2016 growing season.

Seed Gallery: Raíces EcoCulture Seed Library Gardens

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Save the Date!!! Join us May 14, 15, 21 and 22 at Ruthie's Bagel Dish in Highland Park to choose from over 60 varieties of organically grown vegetables, herbs and flowers for your garden!

Grow Your Own! Raíces Seedling Sale

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by Nicole Wines Every year in the late winter and early spring, Francisco and I get together to sort through the Raíces EcoCulture seed collection and get planting, both in our plots and in our greenhouse. This year, our seed starting days were held the week before, and the weekend […]

Seed Starting for Raíces EcoCulture – Happy Spring 2016!

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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.

Hudson Valley Seed Library Donation Update

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