… and Puffball Specialist Group, as well as co-leading the Global Fungal Red List Initiative, is focused on significantly increasing the number of fungi on the Global Red List, raising the … as separate organisms by conservation organizations and agencies —flora, fauna, and fungi—is a current initiative. (Mueller) …
Type: Research
… with food, our campers are eager to “dig into” their creations. For little ones, this project is easy and fun to do with a grown-up and provides opportunities to identify colors and start … plant parts. Older kids can use new kitchen tools (with adult supervision) and discuss what is really a fruit or a vegetable. Watch Painting with Veggies on YouTube. Supply list: Cutting board Sharp knife Food processor or grater White plates Recipe: 1 red bell pepper (see notes) 2 carrots ¾ cup chopped pineapple ½ head red cabbage 1 head …
Type: Blog
… season, we unveiled our cookbook, Cooking in Season with Windy City Harvest . This cookbook is a collection of our favorite seasonal recipes and features the fresh produce grown and … kale at the Washington Park farm Just like planting seeds and harvesting the bounty, cooking is an essential component of the Windy City Harvest program. Program participants learn how to … 3 large garlic cloves, minced ½ cup lemon juice ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup feta cheese, crumbled Preheat the grill to high. Stack the kale and cut off the thick end …
Type: Blog
… of lettuce and corn and tomatoes and too many other crops to list. And that, in a nutshell, is why it continues to be important to plant heirloom varieties. Vintage Varieties, Still in … paths made with wood chips that would have been straw in earlier centuries. As one crop is harvested, the next crop is planted—a nod to the constant production that was a matter of survival for our forefathers and …
Type: Blog
… Is there any more welcome sight than daffodils blooming in the spring? Not to me! I’m thrilled by … said, “Let him who hath two loaves sell one, and buy the flower of narcissus: for bread is but food for the body, whereas narcissus is food for the soul.” During the Victorian era, when flowers were selected carefully for their …
Type: Blog
… demographic, and pollination studies on a threatened thistle ( Cirsium pitcheri ) that is being negatively impacted by a biocontrol weevil. I am also interested in developing measures … Colleagues and I have modeled how fecundity differences among cultivars of invasive species is likely to impact (or not) their invasiveness. Most of these projects are carried out in …
Type: Staff bio
… pollinators react to cultivated varieties of native plants. Budburst's Fall into Phenology is not limited to just leaf color and seed; it is about observing plants in the fall. This will be my second autumn with Budburst and the …
Type: Blog
… Mites are often difficult to see without a lens. Scale — Characteristic sticky, clear honeydew is produced on leaves by these small, immobile, rounded insects usually found on stems and veins …
Type: Plant Info
… One of our favorite insects at the Chicago Botanic Garden is the praying mantis. So we were very excited to obtain an egg case earlier this spring. We … hatch, and then release the newly hatched insects into the Garden. A praying mantis egg case is called an ootheca (pronouned oh-uh– THEE -kuh). The plural is oothecae (oh-uh-THEE-see). … protected the eggs through the winter. The eggs usually hatch in mid-June to early July. The 1/2-inch-long immature praying mantis nymphs resemble the adult, but they do not have wings. …
Type: Blog
… growing in human-altered landscapes. The ability of organisms to move across a landscape is an important part of dealing with change. For example, this ability to move—or disperse—allows … been suspected that they have the potential to move pollen over great distances. “This work is incredibly exciting because it offers hope for plant species that are pollinated by animals …
Type: Research
