Building a worm bin is simple, a great starter do it yourself project for a homestead, whether rural or urban. Vermicomposting requires very little work to produce rich, natural fertilizer for your gardens and process your food waste. Check out how on our D.I.Y. Friday column.
Continue readingFollow these simple instructions to preserve herbs harvested fresh from your own garden or from your local farmers market.
Continue readingby Nicole Wines Nature Therapy is one of the easiest ways to promote healing. This will probably be the simplest instruction set in our D.I.Y. Fridays series to date and it doesn’t cost anything! Here goes: Slow down Take a … Continue reading
by Nicole Wines This week’s D.I.Y. Friday is just a quick tip for all of you who are conscious about reusing and repurposing materials, supplies and resources. There are countless uses for upcycled jars. I use them to store and … Continue reading
by Nicole Wines Tinctures are an easy way to make a powerful medicine from the herbs grown in your garden or those found throughout your yard or the wild. Tinctures, in short, are an herbal extract made using alcohol as … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
by Nicole Wines Recycling, upcycling, repurposing…whatever you want to call it, we are always looking for ways to reuse materials that would normally be thrown away to help keep our impact on the waste stream low. Although I’m not personally … Continue reading
by Nicole Wines At Raíces EcoCulture, we try to stay conscious about reducing the waste stream. Whenever possible, we find second uses for materials that would otherwise be looked at as “garbage”. We upcycle and repurpose as much as we … Continue reading
by Nicole Wines NOTE: I learned this simple D.I.Y. from my co-director Francisco and his family, and I am sharing it with you. Please pass it along, by sharing this post and simple instructions, and making this homemade incense to … Continue reading
