TIERRA de RAICES

Tierra de Raices is our in-house environmentalism program with biweekly meetings that are fun opportunities to gather with like-minded green-thumbed folks and discuss subjects related to sustainability while playing in the dirt. This group is focused on community education about sustainability and advocacy for a community garden to increase food access.

PROGRAM ORIGIN:

A pair of sisters, Karla and Karina Coronado, had the idea to start a composting initiative and structure it as an free intensive diy summer workshop. The sisters applied for a local $1000 Micro Grant geared toward youth projects and proposed a set of workshops that would be open to community members of all ages with Raices Cultura as their fiscal sponsor. The grant funding covered individual composting buckets, a commercial weight scale and thermometer, gardening tools, and food at each meeting. The workshops would inform attendees about the basics of composting and sustainability. Together, this group of engaged community members would start a composting pile and create planting beds to grow fruits and vegetables at Raices’ backyard space. The summer intensive grew into the formal program Tierra de Raices at Raices Cultura with new participants joining the original members with weekly compost bucket drop-offs and compost pile maintenance.

CURRENT PROJECTS