tomatoes

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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by Nicole Wines The Raíces Garden Crew is growing. Members of our recently formed Community Action Team as well as students from the Highland Park High School Environmental Club have been volunteering to transplant herbs and perennials, start seedlings, work on the Raíces Seed Library, and even create new gardens […]

Raíces EcoCulture Garden Crew Spring Update

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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 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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Check our new photo album, featuring just a little slice of the rainbow of good food we have harvested so far this summer as part of our Raíces Eco-Culture Micro Farm project.  It is all grown organically from organic seed. We are updating the album throughout the season, so check […]

A Good Food Rainbow

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