I worked collaboratively with ENVS PhD student Edith Mirabel Gonzalez to develop a project that supports her work with socio-ecological urban gardening techniques and food within the local Oaxacan/Latinx community. For this I created 9 research based Watercolor tiles that work to illustrate specific points in Gonzalez’s dissertation. Each image that I created is based on hours of both personal research and in person research conducted with Gonzalez in the field. This included garden visits where I met and interacted with the community of gardeners in order to establish familiarity and trust. We concentrated on scientific images and diagrams that demonstrated interactions between insect herbivores of the C.pepo plant and the plant itself, predators of the herbivores, and gardening practices of the Oaxacan/Latinx community gardeners in the Watsonville and Santa Cruz area. We plan to continue the work in two future endeavors in the form of an illustrated book and a cookbook and are exploring options for funding.