seed freedom

by Nicole Wines It’s official…the growing season has begun! We have put our first seeds in trays – sweet and hot peppers, eggplants, tomatoes and herbs – rigged up a home germination chamber to keep our seeds cozy and warm so they can sprout quickly and strong, and given them […]

EcoCulture Garden Update – The Growing Season Has Begun – ...

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by Francisco G. Gómez & Nicole Wines During our recent disaster relief support trip to Puerto Rico from January 12-19, 2018, Raíces Crew members were able to post some impressions on social media. This helped us to keep a kind of log of immediate reflections and experiences from the week […]

Impressions from the Raíces Disaster Relief Support Trip – A ...

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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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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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Check out the photos from Raíces EcoCulture Seed Library's seed saving talk, demonstration and seed swap held at the 2016 Spring Renewal Fair in Rumson, NJ.

Photo Gallery – Seed Saving Talk & Seed Swap

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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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It’s that time of year again.  The time of year where it feels like winter has just begun and you can’t believe it’s only a few weeks until planting time.  Seed catalogs have been arriving in the mail; we are planning out our spring and summer gardens (just after the […]

Help Raíces Eco-Culture Spread our Roots – Nominate us for ...

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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

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