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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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Chicago Botanic Garden

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Demo Cooking: Greens & Grains

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Greens and grains are anything but basic. These simple staples can be dressed up to make excellent meals on their own or can act as flavorful side dishes. Learn how to use fresh herbs to punch up the texture and flavor of a dish.  You will learn: The basics of homemade salad dressing Fundamental knife skills Sauté techniques to use in preparing: Autumn root vegetable salad Farro with orange and pomegranate Black beans with swiss...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Demonstration Cooking: Salmon Bowls

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Learn the secrets to creating a quick, easy, and delicious fish dinner with leftover potential in this cooking class at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Enhance your knife skills, prepare rice, steam salmon, and craft a homemade sesame-tamari dressing. Don't miss out on this fabulous opportunity to elevate your culinary repertoire.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Hands-on Cooking Make-Ahead Thanksgiving

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Simplify your Thanksgiving dinner with our hands-on cooking class at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Learn how to prepare all your favorite side dishes, desserts, and even a fall cocktail in advance. Join us and discover the joy of stress-free holiday cooking.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Demonstration Cooking: Edible Gifts

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Learn the art of creating homemade, mouthwatering edible gifts that are sure to impress all year round in this culinary class at the esteemed Chicago Botanic Garden. From luxurious English toffee with almonds to savory cheese and pecan sablés, discover a range of delicious recipes that will solve all your holiday gift-giving dilemmas.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Demo Cooking: Winter Citrus

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Discover the vibrant flavors of winter citrus and bring the sunshine into your kitchen with these citrus-based dishes. Learn how to create a beautiful winter salad with grapefruit, make a delicious sheet pan sausage with orange and fennel, and indulge in a Meyer lemon and basil pound cake. Unleash your culinary creativity with the diverse varieties of citrus and master the art of citrus supreming for an elegant presentation.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Demo Cooking: Salads in a Jar

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Learn the art of creating delicious and convenient salads in a jar with the Demo Cooking course at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Discover knife skills, dressing basics, and different techniques for preparing chicken. Featured recipes include quinoa tabbouleh, Greek salad, and lemon-oregano-thyme chicken.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(122) Advanced 18 and older
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$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.

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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$436

6 sessions

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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...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$68.75
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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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....

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$312

6 sessions

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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...

(122) Intermediate 18 and older
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$449
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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...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$374

6 sessions

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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$362

4 sessions

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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$374
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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...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$312

8 sessions

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