Check out the photo gallery from the first program in Raíces EcoCulture's Sustainable Living Workshop Series - Intro to Beekeeping and Apiculture with Javier Robles
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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
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!
by Nicole Wines Honeybees and other pollinators need our help. We humans have moved (forced) honeybee and pollinator species around and between continents, contaminated their food sources, and been a huge cause of stress on their health and environment. Raíces EcoCulture started its Apiculture Initiative in the spring of 2014 […]
D.I.Y. Fridays – 10 Ways You Can Help the Bees ...
by Francisco G. Gómez So it’s been a month since we set up our new beehive; what a rush getting those incredible little creatures settled into their new home. It was thrilling to say the least and truly one of the most exciting things I have ever experienced. We […]
Raices’ Bees – One Month Old and Going Strong!
A photo post by Nicole Wines (click photos to view larger version) HAPPY SPRING After a long winter, we are glad that it is starting to feel like spring at the very end of March. We are ready to come out of hibernation, to start planting, growing and moving again. […]
March EcoCulture Update: New Gardeners, Spring Planting and our Seed ...
by Nicole Wines We’ve got spring fever at Raíces and we can’t wait to start planting our veggies, greens and herbs and lots of flowers for the bees and other pollinators. By this time last year we were already harvesting our first baby lettuce, but the cold and the snow […]
Raíces Micro Farm Update – Signs of Spring…Shoots and Sprouts
by Nicole Wines Things are buzzing with the Raíces Apiculture Initiative. Francisco just finished building our first beehive this week and we are gearing up to give our first bees a home in the spring. We are also getting ready to help our long-time friend and supporter Sue Winkler, and […]
Apiculture Initiative Field Trip – Visiting the Bees
by Nicole Wines The Raíces Apiculture Initiative has been launched and we are gearing up for the spring season. We have been hard at work acquiring equipment, building beehives, educating ourselves, getting the word out, communicating with the people who reached out about getting involved and creating educational resources like […]