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Learn how to grow your own vegetables and maintain a beautiful garden in the city of Chicago with classes on urban gardening, container gardening, and sustainable gardening practices.
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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...
Healthcare Garden Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This eight-day program includes case studies, group projects, field trips, lectures, and instruction from experts from healthcare garden-related professions. Working in multidisciplinary teams that reflect the real world of healthcare garden design, your learning will be reinforced through tours of healthcare facilities in the Chicago area. Registration includes eight-day program fees, course materials, seminar program, transportation to field sites,...
WCH: Local Food Business
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is intended for aspiring urban-agriculture entrepreneurs who are launching or planning to launch a local foods business. The course has been designed for those practicing sustainable urban agriculturalists who want to produce vegetable crops and agricultural products for sale in commercial markets. Course content has been developed in partnership with an M.B.A. team from DePaul University. Topics covered include: Direct and indirect...
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Small Business for Local Food
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is intended for aspiring urban-agriculture entrepreneurs who are launching or planning to launch a local foods business. The course has been designed for practicing sustainable urban agriculturalists who want to produce vegetable crops and agricultural products for sale in commercial markets. Course content has been developed in partnership with an M.B.A. team from DePaul University.
Aquaponics 3 Day Intensive
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This course is for individuals seriously considering or already in the process of aquaponic food production on a commercial scale. This course is a comprehensive look at the design and build-out of a system, water quality, controlled-environment growing, daily operations, and growing techniques. Instruction will include hands-on work and lectures. This is a certificate course. Aquaponics Three-Day Intensive Course Sample Agenda Day One Meet...
Graphics
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn the basic principles of landscape design illustration. This class introduces graphic design communication, focusing mainly on plans and elevation drawings. Discover how to express ideas using effective and enriched presentation techniques in a relaxed studio setting. Industry symbols, standards, and techniques will be explored, along with professional time-saving shortcuts, the importance of lettering, and the excitement of using color...
$749
TRI Bioregional Herbalism Certificate Course
The TRI Bioregional Herbalism Certificate Course, led by veteran herbalist Linda Conroy, will focus on teaching students how to incorporate herbs into their daily life to promote health and to develop the skills to use herbs for everyday ailments and injuries. Students will be led on plant walks where they will learn to identify and harvest herbs seasonally for food and medicine. In the classroom, students will be guided through the process of transforming...
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
The Permaculture Design Certificate course is a training program that utilizes the teachings of Bill Mollison’s Permaculture Design System. The goal is for you to achieve a basic working understanding in ecologically-based planning, site design, and management. Over three weekends (4-4-3) you will be taught the core permaculture ethics, principles, and practices. In your time, you will be begin to appreciate, understand, and be able to...
Herb Gardens
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Join Lake Forest Flowers' Eileen Weber, AAF for a hands-on floral workshop. Learn growing techniques of popular and unique cooking herbs and create a living garden of assorted herb plants for your patio to take home. Soil, container, and all plant material included. We will be working with soil; bring gloves if you prefer.
$95
Edible Wild Plants Certificate Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
Learn over 200 edible wild plants that grow in our bioregion through classroom, field and home study, but most importantly by eating or preparing recipes with them every class! You will receive an Edible Wild Plants Recipe book containing all of the recipes prepared by the instructor and students throughout the course and a printed certificate recognizing your accomplishment. There are so many reasons to learn how to identify edible wild...
Bioregional Herbalism Course
The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL
Bioregional Herbalism is a pathway to natural wellness. Discover how to engage with bioregional plants as allies and develop personal intuition and connection. Learn the basics of body systems, herbal terminology, and common herbal preparations with a focus on nourishment, wellness, prevention and support. During each Sunday class, discover several plants in depth, learn introductory health care topics and body systems, and make 1-2 herbal preparations....
Sketchbook Skills in the Greenhouses
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Sketchbooks are rewarding, personal, and a way to hone drawing skills. You will draw from nature, plein air-style, in the Greenhouses, using various portable media. Give yourself the freedom to sketch unique specimens without the pressure of producing a final plant portrait—instead, creating a record of your artistic journey. A supply list will be sent.
Orchids and Bromeliads Art Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Follow in the steps of intrepid explorer of the Amazon River basin and superb botanical artist, Margaret Mee, by working with her favorite plants—bromeliads and orchids. While they share the same ecosystem, bromeliads are much rarer as specimens for botanical artists. Use artist instruction to accurately and strikingly depict live orchid and bromeliad specimens in the medium of your choice. A supply list will be sent.
Deciduous Flowering Shrubs
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Study more than 60 different deciduous flowering shrubs (and their cultivars and related species) suitable for commercial landscape and home garden use in the Chicago region. Identification, cultural information, aesthetic qualities, and landscape uses of both common and more unusual shrubs will be emphasized. Upon completing this course, you will be able to select the most appropriate shrubs for your garden space and gardening style.
Planting Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Apply knowledge and skills developed in previous design courses toward a working understanding of planting design. Weekly discussions and individual projects will focus on basic elements of planting design, including an understanding of color and texture, plant combinations, planting bed layout, installation techniques, and maintenance practices. Prerequisites: Four OPC core courses, Graphics, Introduction to Professional Practice, Principles...
Garden Design Studio
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn the theory, methods, and critical skills needed to master garden design in this interactive course. Discover the design process, graphics, research, and more while developing your analytical abilities through collaboration with peers and instructors. A supply list will be provided.
Garden Design Implementation
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
You have the design; you have the client; you have the funding—now what? Lectures will focus on the steps necessary to carry a project from a finished design through to a built landscape. Course projects will include the preparation of construction details and documents, technical specifications, and cost estimates. Prerequisites: Graphics Introduction to Professional Practice Hardscape Basics Introduction to Grading and Draining...
Gardening Techniques: Session C
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Professional Gardener Level 1 Certificate, Professional Gardener Level 2 Certificate, and Garden Design Certificate Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills, learn a variety of techniques, and determine best management practices in the field of horticulture. Gain applicable skills in plant selection, spring assessment and planning, spring...
Soil Basics
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Enhance your gardening skills by understanding the vital role of soil. Discover the secrets to maintaining healthy soil and learn how water cycles affect plants. Get your garden soil professionally analyzed for optimal growth.
Four Seasons of Beauty: Garden Container Series
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This series of workshops and Garden walks features the diversity and creativity of four seasons of Chicago Botanic Garden container gardens. Each season you will explore the Garden grounds with Heather Sherwood and discover an array of striking plants, interesting color and texture combinations, and unique container arrangements. She will then help you create a seasonal container for your sun or partial shade patio or porch.
$320
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