… 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 … their dishes at our annual Open House celebrations. One of our favorite fall recipes is a grilled kale salad. Grilled Kale Salad Preparation: 15 to 30 minutes. Serves: 6 to 8 Salad: …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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). The ootheca was produced by a female praying mantis last fall. She …
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… recently named the next ten years the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, stressing that now is the time to focus on rebuilding, revitalizing, and restoring degraded lands around the world if we want a habitable planet in the future. But ecosystem restoration is complex. It requires both a large amount of seeds from plants native to the area being … representative has signed on here . For more information, visit: https://botanybill.weebly.com/ …
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… especially if it’s a closed terrarium. 4. Use a clean, well-drained growing medium that is high in organic matter. A blend of peat moss, vermiculite, and perlite is a good choice. Soil should be slightly moistened prior to planting. If planting a desert … plants. Most plants suitable for terrariums prefer medium to low light. Bright, indirect sun is preferred. If you need to supplement light with an artificial light, a 100-watt bulb placed …
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… Society—which had a few assumptions about women and their research. Beatrix’s full name is Helen Beatrix Potter . She shares her first name with her mother, Helen Leech Potter, who was … skirt and jacket. The Fairy Caravan , a longer book for older children published in 1929, is autobiographical . Marta McDowell, author of Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, wrote of The … Potter: Fifteen Walks in Beatrix Potter Country by Norman and June Buckley. Peter Rabbit is extremely popular in Japan. The exhibition shows this through a Japanese catalog of all …
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… seemingly, the less one knows; old questions are answered and new ones are developed. This is what pushes scientists, and science, forward. The evolution of a research idea In 2008, I … flower buds and/or seeds, they reduce the number of offspring that the plant produces. This is bad for any plants upon which these moths decide to lay their eggs, but everything must eat, … Could floral scent be telling hawkmoths and Mompha moths where the flowers are? Pollination is good for plant reproduction, but anything that eats flowers or seeds is not—so how would this …
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