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Chicago Botanic Garden
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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-renowned living museum and conservation science center that offers multiple unique nature courses spread throughout 26 gardens and four natural areas on 385 acres.
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Demonstration Cooking: Mushrooms
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Unleash the delectable potential of mushrooms in this hands-on cooking class at Chicago Botanic Garden. Learn expert preparation tips and cooking techniques as you create savory dishes such as mushroom yogurt lettuce cups, portobello cheese "steaks," mixed mushroom lasagna, and French onion and mushroom broth soup.
$87
Demonstration Cooking: Springtime in Paris
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Experience the taste of Paris in the spring with this elegant dinner party menu inspired by fresh ingredients. Indulge in a roasted rack of lamb with garlic-herb crust, paired with asparagus and sauce gribiche, and herbed new potatoes. Let the French mastery of seasonal eating transport you to a culinary paradise.
$87
Hands-on Cooking: Spring Herbs
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover the vibrant world of spring herbs with our practical cooking class. Immerse yourself in the delicate flavors of the season as you create a delectable meal featuring green goddess dressing, savory hand pies, and marinated feta. Plus, take home your container garden filled with fresh and tasty herbs.
$109
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Photoshop 1
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Make your images even better with Adobe Photoshop Elements—a user-friendly photo editor that has the same concepts as the full version of Photoshop. Apply selection tools, layers, and smart brushes. A laptop computer with Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop CS5 installed and a digital camera are required.
Hands-on Cooking: Food Preservation
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Get an early start on your holiday menu planning. In this hands-on class, local food blogger and cookbook author Emily Paster will teach you how to make ahead and preserve a zesty orange-ginger cranberry sauce that is perfect for your holiday feast or edible gifting using local, seasonal, Wisconsin cranberries. The class will also cover the how-tos of water-bath canning, a safe and easy method of home food preservation, including safety and...
$68
Demo Cooking: Mexican Vegetables
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn to incorporate a variety of Mexican flavors and spices into vegetable dishes in this cooking class. Enjoy a light lunch of jicama avocado salad, tamal Azteca, and chayote squash with guajillo dressing.
$70
Hands-on Cooking: Preserving the Harvest
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn to eat more seasonally and locally throughout the year by canning, fermenting, dehydrating, and freezing. You will practice step-by-step methods for water-bath canning and fermentation. Safety concerns and equipment needs will be discussed.
$68.75
Demo Cooking: Easy Thanksgiving Sides
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
The way to keep your cool when hosting Thanksgiving is to rely on make-ahead side dishes. In this demonstration cooking class, you will discover how to simplify your holiday with inventive Thanksgiving side dishes that you can make in advance. Recipes include a kale and butternut squash galette (which can double as a main course for vegetarian guests), balsamic-glazed pearl onions, and a shredded brussels sprouts salad with pecans.
$70
Colored Pencil: Exotic Plants
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Greenhouses contain many exotic plants, displayed in facsimiles of their native habitats, which students will use as subjects. Draw from life in the Greenhouses, making studies of the intricate plant structures and colors, then return to the studio to translate studies into compositions. Work in graphite leading to finished work in colored pencil, using all the techniques introduced in earlier colored pencil courses....
John Pastoriza-Pinol Watercolor Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
John Pastoriza-Pinol, an award-winning botanical artist with a doctorate in botany from the University of Vigo, Spain, is coming from Australia to teach a three-day workshop. Learn a technique for achieving the intricacies of fine detail in your paintings. Properly protecting those critical edges in your drawing before laying down your watercolor washes is an invaluable process for contemporary botanical artists. As a result, your paintings will...
$449
Rooftop Garden Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Maximize your rooftop space with a green oasis. Discover the benefits and special considerations for planning a successful rooftop garden. Explore all of the elements necessary to design a rooftop garden and apply that knowledge to your design project. Learn about environmental issues, weight load, decking and paving materials, screening issues, arbors, planters, plantings, lighting, and irrigation. Dress for the weather. A supply list will...
Hands-on Cooking: Indian High Tea
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Indian street food and chai tea are perfect for parties. You will make a platter of vegetable pakoras: tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, and spinach dipped in gram (chickpea) flour to make crunchy fritters. Complete the vegetarian snack spread with masala chai, a hot beverage infused with herbs.
$75
Fall Flowers in Watercolor and Pen & Ink
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Unleash your creativity this autumn with a captivating art course that explores the vibrant world of fall flowers. Join us for a unique blend of watercolor and pen & ink techniques as you learn to create depth and capture the beauty of these seasonal blooms. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your artistic skills and immerse yourself in the stunning surroundings of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Botany in Your Kitchen
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Did you know your tapioca dessert comes from a root? Learn the plant taxonomy of things right in your kitchen. Explore the different parts of a plant that are edible such as fruit, roots, stems, shoots, and seeds, and how these end up on your plate as a nutritious meal.
$39
Botany for Botanical Artists
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Bring realism to your botanical artwork with a focus on identifying the morphological features of plants. Emphasizing specific plant parts in illustrations is critical to the identification of plant species in both scientific floras and identification manuals. Through a combination of lectures and lab/studio time, you will identify key characteristics in each plant specimen and then transfer them to botanical illustrations. A supply list will be...
$374
Rejuvenated Jewelry
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Inspired by the little treasures you save and love, we will cleverly combine old and new elements to create spectacular jewelry. Bring your special and sentimental keepsakes, single earrings, buttons, charms, chains, family photos, and found objects and let Bonnie Arkin inspire your creativity. You will learn to solder, wire wrap, and string. Arkin has many examples to share and resources for treasure hunting. A supply list is given...
Introduction to Grading and Drainage
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Apply knowledge and skills developed in previous design courses to basic grading and drainage concepts as they relate to design. Acquire a critical understanding of key earth forms and drainage patterns in residential landscapes through active discussions and hands-on projects. Prerequisites: Graphics Introduction to Professional Practice Principles of Garden Design
The Rhythms of Stone: Garden Sculpture Workshop
Known for his excellence in teaching, award-winning sculptor DJ Garrity will conduct a stone-carving workshop focusing on carving a face onto stone. This artist resides in the west of Ireland and travels to the Chicago Botanic Garden to teach this workshop whenever his busy schedule allows (which isn’t very often!). He has served three tours of duty as the sculptor-in-residence of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial and established an international...
Botanical Art "Learn How" Series
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This series of classes is for anyone who has an interest in learning how to draw and paint but feels intimidated at the thought. Heeyoung Kim’s step-by-step instruction and guidance will allow you to learn and have fun doing it. Plan to spend the day and register for both sessions at once to receive a ten percent discount. Learn How to Draw in Graphite Pencil 2: Experience the magic of a graphite pencil. A pencil, the simplest tool, will...
Photograph Great Gardens of Chicago and Environs
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to visit and photograph five magnificent gardens in and around Chicago at the height of the summer bloom during this intensive five-day flower and garden workshop led by master photographer Allen Rokach. Rokach will guide participants to the limitless possibilities of digital photography in a garden setting, focusing on the particular strengths of each location: spectacular specialty gardens of the Chicago...
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