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  • … Garden Design Certificate Program Innovation in Healing Gardens The Chicago Botanic Garden is not offering the Healthcare Garden Design Certificate Program.  Instead, the Chicago Botanic Garden is offering healthcare garden design topics under the Garden Design Certificate program . Please … on related course topics.    … Innovation in Healing Gardens The Chicago Botanic Garden is not offering the Healthcare Garden Design Certificate Program.  Instead, the Chicago Botanic …
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  • … Plant Collections Search the Collections A museum's major function is to collect and preserve objects. As a museum, the Chicago Botanic Garden is dedicated to building its permanent collections, which are its objects. Living collections at … are aesthetic; and they are relevant to the Garden's visitors and consumers.   Quercus (Multi-site) It is estimated that the genus Quercus contains more than 500 naturally occurring taxa that …
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  • … to create the experience of being in a much larger, more secluded woodland. (Spider Island is the smallest of the nine islands of the Chicago Botanic Garden.) This place is an intimate retreat in which all forms of nature are celebrated, a place of trees, shrubs, … first to bloom on Spider Island are bluebells ( Hyacinthoides non-scripta ); among the last is hairy toad lily (Tricyrtis hirta ‘Moonlight’). When you get to the end of the path, take a …
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  • … pollinators. Louise Clemency, Field Supervisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Louise Clemency is the field supervisor for the Chicago Field Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. … Garden since 1986. He has a horticulture degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an instructor for the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, the author of Plant Evaluation Notes , and is an author and contributing editor for Fine Gardening . In 2005, he received the Perennial …
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  • … emotional and even intellectual benefits that interaction with nature affords human beings. It is hoped that this symposium provides a catalyst for further research on the health benefits of … H. Horton, Ph.D., Northwestern University One way to make the Forest Preserves more inviting is by creating programs and policies that educate people about the health benefits of spending time in the preserves. Building those policies and programs is best done on a foundation of solid scientific evidence. View a pdf of Teresa Horton's …
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  • … Healthcare Garden Design Certificate Program FAQs What is the program about? You will discover the many ways gardens provide verifiable health benefits … expertise, knowledge, and tools to effectively design, manage, and evaluate such gardens. What is especially unique about this program? One of the most comprehensive professional development … of healthcare garden design, your learning is reinforced through case studies, group projects, site visits, lectures, and instruction from experts in healthcare garden-related professions.  …
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  • … Partners & Funders Partners The impact of Windy City Harvest is rooted in collaboration. The Chicago Botanic Garden’s institutional commitment, combined with … Institute Cook County Commissioners Family Focus Forest Preserves of Cook County Good Food is Good Medicine Lawndale Christian Health Center McCormick Place & Oakview Group Midwest Foods … UIC School of Allied Health Winston & Strawn And many others...   Funders Windy City Harvest is made possible through the generous support of government grants and contributions from …
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  • … it’s worth the wait: an utterly thrilling visual phenomenon.     The titan arum bloom cycle is unpredictable. At first, even the experts don’t know if what’s emerging is a leaf or a flower bud. Days must pass before the subtle signs—a more dimpled shape, a suggestion of a frill—point to flowering. Soon the plant is powering up, growing 4 to 6 inches per day, and the spiky spadix can be seen rising from the …
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  • … Speakers Wednesday, May 10, 2017 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Alsdorf Auditorium Clare Cooper Marcus is professor emerita, Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and principal of Healing Landscapes, Berkley, CA. She is internationally recognized for pioneering research on the psychological and sociological … firm puts priority on bridging research with practice, utilizing human psychology and site ecology in bringing ideas to life. Epstein helped establish the ASLA Therapeutic Garden …
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  • … Director,  Windy City Harvest              Click here to show mail address   Britt Calendo is the program director for Windy City Harvest. In this role she oversees our Apprenticeship, … produce program from 2018 to 2021. Calendo has a master’s degree in social work and is excited about combining her background in social work and public health with sustainable urban … with Windy City Harvest in 2021, when he began as a grower for the Washington Park farm site. He went on to work with a program alumni farmer, Chicago Urban Farm Solutions, before …
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