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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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Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 25779 N St. Marys Rd, Chicago, IL
Enjoy a state of relaxation and reconnecting with nature through activities like breathing exercises, gentle yoga, journaling, and meditation. All are welcome.
$149
Yoga at the Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Move through a series of yoga postures connecting to the breath and to nature. These practices are designed to help you relax and develop a sense of peace and wellness. Class may be held outside when weather allows. Class size is limited to nine students to allow for physical distancing. Please bring a mask and your own yoga mat. All are welcome.
Valentine's Day Dish Garden Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Celebrate Valentine’s Day by learning to create a beautiful dish garden from start to finish. After class, dress for the weather and enjoy the day with your Valentine walking around the Chicago Botanic Garden. All materials themed with Valentine’s Day colors will be provided to create your own oasis to enjoy all year long. Please bring gloves, an apron if desired, and pruning shears. Price is for two people, and you will take home one...
$119
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Fairy Garden Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Looking for a touch of fairy magic? Indulge your imagination by planting and decorating a fairy garden using small plants, unique accessories, miniature garden features, and fairy decorations. Basic fairy design and plant care will be covered. Bring garden gloves and an apron, if desired.
$112
Yoga with the Garden
Enjoy a combination of gentle breathing, stretching, meditation and relaxation with attention placed on postures designed to build strength and resilience. Connect with your yoga community in this live, interactive format from the comfort of your own home. Please ensure we have your current email on file, as this is how we will send login instructions to you prior to class. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts....
Felted Landscape
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Create a landscape with beautiful skies, hills and flowers. You will create a felted picture, complete with yarns for adding texture and vivid hand-dyed wools for foliage and flowers. Start with a white canvas of wool and make it come alive as you learn techniques to create great landscape pieces. Learn and be inspired to capture nature’s glory in felt! All materials included.
$124
Hands-on Cooking: Baby & Wedding Showers
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Host a themed shower that your guests will never forget. Learn how to create a make-ahead menu and discover tips for customized decorations and gifts that will make the event meaningful for your guest of honor. You will make: Freshly ground ham salad on baby croissants Curried chicken salad on puff pastry Tuna salad de Puerto Vallarta on tea breads with chives, ice cold vichyssoise soup Raspberry, goat cheese, pecan salad with grapefruit...
$109
Hands-on Cooking: Kitchen Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Using produce from your own garden or the farmers’ market helps keep your meals fresh and sustainable. Plan ahead for summer by potting up a take-home container with tomato, pepper, basil, and parsley seedlings. Learn tips and techniques for incorporating these herbs and vegetables into your summer meals with recipes such as butter bean, tomato, and cucumber salad; red pepper tartines; and tomato tabbouleh salad.
$109
Tin Ladybug Pin Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Create two whimsical ladybug pins from colorful decorative tin, beads, wire, and jewelry parts and pieces. These fun little ladybugs will look great on your hat or jacket. All materials are included. All skill levels welcome.
$124
Canoe Adventure
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
In partnership with Friends of the Chicago River, the Garden invites you to participate in a rare opportunity to canoe the lakes of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Herons, ducks, small fish, and maybe even a few turtles and frogs will greet you as we explore their watery habitat. No experience with canoeing is necessary; instruction, canoes, life jackets, and paddles are all provided. Please choose one of the scheduled start times. You’ll enjoy a...
$120
Demo Cooking: Fourth of July Party
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Prepare for a family and friends fireworks gathering. Plan ahead and learn to make a red-, white-, and blue-themed menu that is a step up from everyday burgers, potato salad, and corn. You will discover how to prepare grilled sirloin; heirloom tomato, basil, and buffalo mozzarella rotolo; red, white, and blue creamy potato salad; lime and smoked paprika-charred corn on the cob; and apple pie with vanilla ice cream for dessert.
$109
Made for the Shade Container Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Need some color in the shade? Take a Garden walk to view shade-loving plants, and then create your own container designed with shade in mind. We will use a variety of plants, including perennials and annuals. Please bring gloves. All other materials are provided.
$112
Essentials of Perspective Drawing
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
New! Successfully illustrating proper positioning of objects in space is an essential component of drawing. Through sketching structural elements in the Garden and in the classroom setting, you will gain an understanding of linear perspective, shadows, and reflections. Explore how you think about the visual representation of a landscape to improve the realism of your artwork. Dress for the weather. Prerequisites: Botanical Drawing 1 or...
$149
Butterfly Mosaic Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Everyone loves butterflies for their bright colors and distinct patterns. Create a mosaic treasure by transforming broken china, glass, mirror, beads, tin patterns, and jewelry in this exciting workshop. You will learn how to cut and transform materials into mosaic onto an 8-inch wooden butterfly. Feel free to bring a special or sentimental treasure or dish to incorporate into your design. All other materials are included. ...
$124
Demo Cooking: Laid Back Summer Bash
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Who wants to be stuck inside on a hot summer day cooking while everyone else is having fun outside? Join the party with a fabulous make-ahead menu so you can have a great time as well. Learn how to make bourbon-lacquered ribs, twice baked potato bar, crisp Caesar salad with chunky buttered croutons, and a gorgeous berry cobbler topped with salted caramel ice cream. There won’t be a crumb left!
$109
Introduction to Mushroom Identification
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Although DNA testing is the only way to tell with complete and absolute certainty what mushroom you have found, in this class you will learn the basics of mushroom identification. In addition to becoming more familiar with the major mushroom groups from a morphological standpoint, you will also learn the basic characteristics of fungi including cap and stipe features, how to use a key, and how to make a spore print. We will collect specimens...
$124
Relaxation Retreat
Surround yourself with nature for a day of relaxation while you enjoy forest bathing and live sound meditation. Begin your day with a slow, two-hour forest bathing walk covering less than one mile. Forest bathing, originally developed in Japan as Shinrin yoku, refers to the practice of immersing all your senses in the healing forest to reduce stress hormones and increase immune function. Next, break for lunch on your own surrounded by fall Garden...
$149
Hamsa Hand Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
The Hamsa hand brings happiness, luck, health, and good fortune. Artists throughout the ages have incorporated the hamsa into beautiful art. Create a mosaic treasure from broken china, glass, mirror, beads, and jewelry in this exciting workshop. You will learn how to professionally cut china dishes to mosaic onto a 7-inch wooden hamsa hand. Feel free to bring a special or sentimental treasure or plate to incorporate into your design. ...
$124
Hands-on Cooking: Fall and Winter Soups
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Homemade soups easily adapt, whether you prepare a simple supper or host a celebratory party. You will make acorn squash and blue cheese soup served in the squash shell, from-scratch chicken noodle soup, and learn about different variations for a classic French bisque—a smooth and velvety cream soup.
$109
Hands-on Cooking: Sweet and Savory Pies
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Pies make delicious desserts and delectable dinners. In this hands-on cooking class, make the most of the summer to fall harvest while learning to make triple berry pie and apple pie, and discover tips and techniques for a flaky, flavorful chicken pot pie
$109
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