by Gabriela Carr | Jul 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
This was an enormous site! It’s part of the Cook County preserves. The size of the site meant that the three different sections we visited had visible differences in their soil, with the “Phoenix” section having much drier soil than the...
by Gabriela Carr | Jul 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
This site was at a big horticultural center, which was a cool place to visit! My favorite part of the center was their lawn mower roomba, which took about 6 hours to mow a small lawn but boy was it adorable in the process. The prairie restoration was right next to a...
by Gabriela Carr | Jul 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sorry for the long absence friends, it’s been a busy July! At the beginning of the month we went to Peck Farm, beautiful agricultural land converted into a prairie and visitor’s center. The prairie was very dense and had beautifully soft soil, unlike some...
by Gabriela Carr | Jul 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today was a lab day, where we ID’ed plants we brought back from the field that we hadn’t been able to figure out, after which we pressed them so we can continue to look at them in the coming weeks. For some IDs we looked through the Garden’s...
by Gabriela Carr | Jul 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
NOTE: Go take another look at the 6.24 post! I wrote something incorrect about the Rudbeckias, but have replaced it with equally cool information! This was our last site in the Chicago Park District, just across the path from the Wavy site. It had a gorgeous view of...
