Raíces EcoCulture Garden Update – June 2018
by Nicole Wines We weren’t even going to have our garden this year. But “just a couple of vegetable plants” and “let’s at least leave the herb circle” has turned into our best gardening year yet. As we...
View ArticleEcoCulture Garden Update – Pollinators In Action – July 7, 2018
by Nicole Wines While we eat salad after salad filled with homegrown greens, radishes and herbs (many of which you can see photos of in our June Garden Gallery), and wait for our first tomatoes to...
View ArticleEcoCulture Garden Update – Abundance – July 28, 2018
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...
View ArticleHudson Valley Seed Library Donation Update
Raíces EcoCulture just received our first delivery of seed donations for the 2016 season! We want to send a huge thank you to all of our friends, family and supporters who nominated Raíces for a seed...
View ArticleSeed Starting for Raíces EcoCulture – Happy Spring 2016!
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...
View ArticleGrow Your Own! Raíces Seedling Sale
Raíces EcoCulture Annual Seedling Sale UPDATE – IMPORTANT CHANGE: Due to the forecast of rain and wind by noon with a chance of showers in the morning on Saturday, May 21, we will be cancelling the...
View ArticleSeed Gallery: Raíces EcoCulture Seed Library Gardens
by Nicole Wines In the modern era of patents, ownership, seed contracts and control, seed saving is essential to cultural preservation as well as the preservation of our future foods, fruits, herbs and...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery: Raíces Seed Library Orientation Meetings 2017
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...
View ArticleRaíces Seedling Sale Fundraiser 2017
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...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery: Intro to Seed Saving Workshop
On May 21, Raíces Cultural Center’s EcoCulture program held an Introduction to Seed Saving workshop as part of our Sustainable Living Workshop Series. Participants in the workshop learned about the...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....