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Botany 101: Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants—BLENDED
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Learn about how different plant groups evolved to look the way they do and how to distinguish between them. You'll engage in active observation through drawing and photographing plants. After learning about the major plant lineages, we'll examine living specimens to help improve plant identification skills. Expect to leave class with an improved ability to identify and ask useful questions about the plants you encounter. No drawing skill necessary....
Wednesday Jun 7th, 6–7pm Eastern Time
(2 sessions)
Central Park (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 5th Ave & E 106th St, New York, NY 10029
Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods of mid-spring. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding great quantities of renewable ingredients: Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard, hot hedge mustard, and even hotter poor man's pepper, will abound on lawns or under trees anywhere, and lemony sheep sorrel thrives in sunny places. Offset their flavors in a salad with milder-tasting...
Saturday Jun 24th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
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Central Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 5th Ave & E 106th St, New York, NY 10029
Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods in early spring. Making a meal with these plants is simple at this time of the year. For an appetizer, try simmering field garlic bulbs in diluted vinegar with Italian seasonings, to make an outstanding pickle. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding large quantities of leafy, green ingredients. Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard,...
Saturday Jun 24th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Sunken Meadow State Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Sunken Meadow Park - Kings Park, LI, Kings Park, NY 11754
This is an outstanding park for foragers in mid-summer. We'll explore cultivated areas, the seashore, and woods, all in one day. The most spectacular find in this park grows within sight of the ocean. Dozens of blackberry bushes in nearby thickets provide thousands of exquisitely delicious berries. Smaller than their commercial counterparts, and more seedy, they taste so much better, they'll make you forget all about your iPhone! This won't...
Sunday Jun 11th, 1–4pm Eastern Time
Blooming Botany
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Celebrate the beginning of spring by learning about flowering plant life cycles! This intro-level botany course will include flower and seed dissections, germination experiments, sowing some annual flower seeds to take home, and a walk through the Garden to observe the earliest BBG blooms. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance, and you will be directed to...
$61
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Basic Botany for Gardeners
New York Botanical Garden @ 20 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
Understanding how plants grow is vital to successful gardening. Ideal for gardeners at any level, this course explores the basic principles of plant physiology with a focus on vital aspects of botany that every gardener should understand. Learn helpful tricks and tips as we study core botanical principles in fast and friendly terms. Required Texts: Botany for Gardeners, by Brian Capon
$209
3 sessions
Kitchen Botany for the Apartment Gardener
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
You eat plants every day, but do you ever stop to consider the botany on your plate? We’ll examine various culinary plants up close and learn how the botanical function of different plant parts relate to their gastronomic appeal. The workshop includes a hands-on lab and planting your own kitchen botany window box. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance, and...
$49
Healing Spirits: The Botany of Aperitifs and Digestifs
New York Botanical Garden @ 20 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
The centuries-old botanical history of aperitifs and digestifs, from Chartreuse to Fernet Branca, stems in part from a monastic quest to divine an "elixir of long life." Many cultures still commonly consume these herbal drinks, made of complex mixtures of plant material, for their unique flavor profiles and for their medicinal properties. As you taste selected aperitifs and digestifs, discover their botany and discuss the physiological impacts each...
$95
Medical Botany
New York Botanical Garden @ 20 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
This introduction to herbalism covers herbal traditions and highlights specific, health- optimizing foods and plants. Study the medicinal properties of plants used for the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems, as well as best practices for cultivating, harvesting, and storing herbs. Learn to prepare basic herbal teas, poultices, and soaks. The focus of the course is on general plant actions (carminatives, cholagogues, expectorants);...
$349
6 sessions
Ethnomedicine: Caribbean Cures
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Globalization may be a current buzzword, but people and plants have always been on the move. Dr. Ina Vandebroek, Assistant Curator of Economic Botany and Caribbean Program Director, shares insights from her research on native and historically-introduced plants of Jamaica and the Dominican Republic that are still widely used as medicine and food, both in the islands and right here in the Bronx. Experience a new world of sensorial botany by tasting...
$85
Pressing Plants for Art & Science
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
From the field to the folder, this course covers the essentials of making museum- quality preserved plant specimens suitable for research, education, and decoration. Learn techniques and skills for collecting and preserving plants of your interest, wild or cultivated. Build your own herbarium, useful as a permanent record and study-aid for other Botany and Horticulture courses-or for artistic appreciation.
$395
4 sessions
Celebrating Black Botanists: George Washington Carver
Queens Botanical Garden @ Virtual learning
Midwinter Break Virtual Family Program: The Genius of George Washington Carver Join us on Zoom for an online family series celebrating Black achievements in the field of botany. Workshops will feature prominent and relatively unknown historical Black botanists and scientists, demonstrations of their discoveries, and suggested at-home activities inspired by their work. We will also highlight current BIPOC-led organizations that are carrying on the...
$10
A "Romantical" Botanical Nature Walk
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Discover the sexy side of botany this spring. We'll delight our senses as we take in some of the most fragrant and alluring blooms around the grounds and share the fascinating science of how they attract their pollinators. Be amazed by what recent research has uncovered about "the birds and the bees" of the plant world—the astounding tactics used by flowers to elicit visitors. We'll even visit the dark side of sexual reproduction, with stories...
$23
Edmond Albius & the Cultivation of Vanilla
Queens Botanical Garden @ Virtual learning
Celebrating Black Botanists: Edmond Albius & the Cultivation of Vanilla Join us on Zoom for an online family series celebrating Black achievements in the field of the botany. Workshops will feature prominent and relatively unknown historical Black botanists and scientists, demonstrations of their discoveries, and suggested at-home activities inspired by their work. We will also highlight current BIPOC-led organizations that are carrying on...
$10
Early American Botanical Collections
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
A Journey through Time: Early American Botanical Collections "At my feet lay the Great Central Valley of California, like a lake of pure sunshine, forty or fifty miles wide, five hundred miles long, one rich furred garden of yellow Compositae." Conservationist John Muir illustrates how dazzling American flora was to those who pushed westward, a bounty of botanists hurried to document. Discover more about these early expeditions while viewing...
$85
