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Check out the full summer calendar for the Common Ground workshop series. Next up-Zucchini Bread on July 9th.

Common Ground Summer Workshop Schedule

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Join us for the first event in the Common Ground series on April 23, 3-4:30pm @ the George St. Co-Op Cafe (89 Morris St., 2nd floor, New Brunswick, NJ)

Common Ground: New Raíces EcoCulture Collaborative Series

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by Nicole Wines We were thrilled to come across this awesome composting video created by local teens from the New Brunswick 4-H Green Titans Club and wanted to share it with our readers and supporters.  Check it out to learn more about how composting works and what these local youth […]

EcoCulture Spotlight: Local Youth EcoWarriors Release Composting Video

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Raíces EcoCulture is growing! In the last year, we have started up a local and regional seed library, and this coming growing season we are expanding from our 7 micro farm plots to a 2-acre small farm site only 10 miles from our home base. We are excited to have […]

Help Raíces EcoCulture Spread our Roots – Nominate us for ...

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Happy Spring from the Raíces crew! This spring brings a lot of great news for Raíces and our community.  We have a new home.  Our seeds our planted and our first sprouts are up.  The cold frame experiment we planted with lettuce in February, worked.  Our April Sustainability Series guest […]

April EcoCulture Update: Seeds, Seedlings and Spreading our Roots

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Raíces EcoCulture recently became coordinators of the Livingston Community Gardens in collaboration with the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, in addition to the seven organic micro farm plots we will be planting for our second year. We are looking forward to sowing our seeds and extending our branches even […]

Help Raíces EcoCulture Spread our Roots – Nominate us for ...

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