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Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute
Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute fosters collaboration among the neuroscience-related departments and divisions within Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.
Our mission is to:
- Assure excellence in basic and clinical research studies that increase our understanding of the normal and diseased brain.
- Promote the translation of research findings into new treatments for neurological disease.
- Improve the care of patients with neurological and neurobehavioral diseases.
- Provide a rich intellectual environment that enhances the educational experience in all neuroscience disciplines.
Harbaugh Named SNS President-Elect
Dr. Robert Harbaugh, professor and chair of the Penn State Hershey Department of Neurosurgery and director of the Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute, has been chosen as president-elect of the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS). The SNS is the oldest neurological society in the world and includes leaders in neurosurgical residency education. Harbaugh also serves as president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and as vice-chair of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. http://www.societyns.org/society/officers.html
Morrison receives Distinguished Achievement Award from AHA
Kathy Morrison, stroke program manager at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, has been presented with the American Heart Association, Great Rivers Affiliate 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award. More >>
Past Awards
- Medical Center receives national recognition for Advanced Stroke Care
- Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute Specialists named in Best Doctors® in America.
- Congratulations to graduate students Ahmed Alkhateeb (Ph.D. Program, Cell & Molecular Biology), Fatima Ali-Rahmani (Ph.D. Program, Molecular Medicine), and Cody Weston (M.D./Ph.D. Program, Neuroscience) on being awarded the Graduate Alumni Endowed Scholarship. Ali-Rahmani also received an alumni scholarship from the class of 1971. Earlier in 2012, Alkhateeb also received the Outstanding Dissertation award in Life Sciences - a Penn State wide competition. These awards, coupled with the CTSA scholarship that Xiaowei (Bill) Su won earlier in the year, represent the outstanding achievements of our neuroscience graduate students.
Deep Brain Stimulation
Experts and patients discuss brain tumor diagnosis, treatment and recovery
Stroke survivor stories
Gamma Knife
Patients and physicians discuss the latest treatments of back pain and spinal injuries
Stimulating Minds
Discovering treatment options for essential tremor
Experts and patients discuss the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of carotid artery disease
Restless legs syndrome
- Meyers receives $100,000 grant to advance breast cancer research The PA Breast Cancer Coalition has presented $100,000 to Craig Meyers of Penn State College of Medicine. Meyers' research focuses on using the adeno-associated virus type 2, or AAV2, to kill breast cancer cells in certain types of tumors.More...
- Lecture, workshop to kick off celebration of new office The new Office of Inter-Professional Collaborative Education and Teamwork kick-off celebration will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.10, at the University Conference Center on the Penn State Hershey campus.More...
- The Medical Minute: Services for adults with autism 'a pressing priority' In the early 1990s, autism awareness kicked into high gear, and Pennsylvania responded by developing programs and services to meet the needs of newly diagnosed children. Now, those children have become young adults, and the medical community faces its next challenge -- how to serve adults with autism.More...
- Spin for THON 2015 will burn calories, raise funds Nov. 28 Start the holiday season off right and spin off turkey and stuffing from Thanksgiving dinner while raising money at Spin for THON 2015. One-hour spin classes will run from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28 at the University Fitness Center on the Penn State Hershey campus.More...


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Leagues in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island move forward to form the Cooperative Credit Union Association.
Cornerstone goes big at its annual meeting, attracting 122 vendors eager to meet more than 900 attendees.
Per the Cornerstone league, Arkansas credit unions grew used auto loans 24.4% in 2013, and new auto loans by 4.8%.
As the nation slowly thaws out after brutally cold weather, credit unions may continue to see a bit of a freeze when it comes to deposit growth this year.
Site will allow employees at member credit unions to collaborate, and will include streamlined event registration with multiple payment options.
Although the NCUA recently announced it is developing new exam procedures to improve the identification of fraud risk indicators, especially at small institutions, experts agree fighting fraud requires a team effort that includes active boards, strong supervisory committees and stiff internal controls.
Sixteen state leagues merge in past six years.
Sixteen state leagues merge in past six years.
With the effective date of the revised loan participation rule less than one week away, credit unions and CUSOs have taken another look at their lending programs to see if any adjustments need to be made.
CUs and CUSOs look at lending programs to see if any adjustments needed before Sept. 23 effective date of new NCUA rule.

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Wired Nature
As winter winds disperse prairie seeds and fragrant pinecones tumble down, Bianca Rosenbaum is busy collecting. As much as she would love to forage through the seasonal natural materials outside of her office at the Chicago Botanic Garden, that's not what she is after these days. Rather, she is gathering data.
Seated at her desk in the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center, Rosenbaum taps away at her computer's purple keyboard. The Garden's conservation science information manager is busy finishing her masterpiece—a searchable collection of visual and numeric plant data. The new product is a one-stop-shop for information previously housed in three separate databases and accessible by few.
Named the Science Collections database, the project centralizes the Garden's data on seed collections, herbaria, and plant DNA. For the first time, the information is accessible online by anyone from international scientists to curious children.
"We saw this great opportunity to combine our databases and be able to cross reference collections," she said. "It's been very exciting. It's one of my biggest, most challenging projects. It feels extremely rewarding."
Since she began working at the Garden in 2002 as an expert in Microsoft Access, Rosenbaum has overseen the safekeeping of the data in all three of these areas as well as other Garden research collections. In just a few years, the way the information was stored and managed became outdated as technology progressed. She was thrilled with the opportunity to advance its management system.
When the Science Collections project began four years ago, one of her first tasks was to identify data used by all three databases and merge them into common tables to eliminate repetition and guarantee standardization. The result was a complicated set of linked tables that comprise the structure for the final product—called a relational database.
She then merged all of the data on each species. Now, rather than going to different databases to find all of the herbarium, seed, and DNA information recorded about a plant, it can be found in one place.
Rosenbaum then worked with the Garden conservation GIS lab manager, Emily Yates, to add a spatial component to the data by mapping plant locations, which are linked to each collection record. Lastly, she built a web page to serve as a portal from the database to the internet.
Data from the Garden's Nancy Poole Rich Herbarium are mainly visual, with 17,000 images of pressed plants alongside notes about location and related details. Information from the Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank includes high-resolution images of seeds from 2,600 species. The program also includes notes about whether the Garden houses material that may be accessed for DNA sampling for a given plant. The records include information on all classifications of regional plants, and some international. Only those labeled as threatened or endangered are not shown on a map.
"This job has totally changed my outlook," said Rosenbaum, who had no real interest in botany before coming to work at the Garden. "I feel very fortunate that I've been here and I've been able to combine both the tech world and the environment."
As a child, she grew her love of technology with encouragement from her parents—an engineer and electronic assembler. She went on to study computer engineering in college, and gained work experience with coding and data management. As a Garden employee, she has coupled those computer skills with a new set of plant-related skills. She is now comfortable with plant names, discussing scientific processes, and even growing her own vegetable garden at home.
Although she spends much of her work day glued to her computer screen, Rosenbaum does find time to look out her window, or step outside to connect with her subject matter. "I think it's very easy to not notice this world when you are in the tech world, or the business world," she said. "Now I can connect the two and know what it is I am working on and see what I am working to protect and conserve."
Rosenbaum often strolls the Waterfall Garden in warm months, but she especially looks forward to spending time in the peaceful Dixon Prairie.
The recently launched database is now open to exploration at www.sciencecollections.org. Check back in coming months for Rosenbaum's forthcoming addition of advanced search options.
©2014 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Make a Grapefruit Bird Feeder
My daughters love fresh grapefruit, and winter is the season when this fruit is at its best. Instead of throwing away the rind, we decided to make a bird feeder. This is a great winter project for the family.
To make a grapefruit bird feeder you will need:
- Half a grapefruit rind (you can also use an orange)
- Three pieces of yarn, each cut about 18 inches long
- A knife, skewer, pointed scissors, or other sharp tool
- Birdseed
First, eat the grapefruit and drain the remaining liquid. Then, use the skewer or knife to poke three holes in the grapefruit. They should be about half an inch from the top edge and spaced evenly around the circumference. (Some people do this with four strings, but I find that using three strings makes it easier to balance the fruit.)
Push a piece of yarn through each hole and tie it off.
Hold the grapefruit up by all three strings and adjust the length of the strands so the fruit is not tipping. When it is balanced, knot the strings together about 4 or 5 inches from the top. (The ends will probably be uneven, and that is all right.) Make a loop knot with those top ends, so you will be able to hang it from a branch.
Finally, fill the fruit with birdseed and hang it outside for your feathered friends to enjoy. If you like, you can add a little suet, but you may find it doesn't stick well to the wet fruit. Here in the Chicago area, you'll probably find that most of your winter guests are black-capped chickadees, nuthatches, dark-eyed juncos, common redpolls, and downy or hoary woodpeckers, who balance their primary diet of insects and grubs with bit of suet and sunflower seeds.
One more thing: Make sure it's tied to the branch firmly so that your local (determined) squirrels — who will also find this bird feeder appealing — don't knock it down.
Don't worry if you don't have any visitors the first few days after you've placed your feeder. It can take up to two weeks for birds to discover their new food source, but once they do, they tell all their friends in the neighborhood.
What is birdseed?
You probably know that if you plant birdseed, you won't grow a bird. And there is no such thing as a birdseed plant. So what plants make birdseed? What we call "birdseed" most commonly comes from two sources: millet, which is a grass, and sunflower. Other seeds used to feed birds include thistle, safflower, cracked corn, and sorghum seed, which is also called milo. Some birds have a preference for certain kinds of seeds, so bird lovers stock their feeders with seeds to attract their favorite birds and keep them visiting the feeder.
After you hang your bird feeder, take some of the seed and plant it to see what grows. Maybe you can grow your own food for the birds this year!
©2014 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Christmas Tree Taxonomy
Every winter, as a public garden, the Chicago Botanic Garden turns its educational programming attention—as well as its decorations—to the only plants that stay green through the season: the evergreens. We teach class after class of school children how to identify different kinds of evergreens by their needles and cones.
It's a lesson in sorting and classifying plants—in other words: taxonomy.Conifer vs. Evergreen
Every year we remind students of the meanings of the words "evergreen" and "conifer"—they are not the same thing!—and every year, someone is confused. I blame Christmas trees.
First, it's important to understand that evergreens are any plants that remain green through the winter, like pine, spruce, fir, and Douglas fir. Conifers, on the other hand, are a classification of trees that produce seeds inside cones. These trees include pine, spruce, fir, and Douglas fir. Wait a minute…those are are the same trees!
You see, the problem is that our Christmas trees tend to be both evergreen and conifer, and as a result, many of us have forgotten the difference. To help us illustrate the definitions of the two terms, let's look at some evergreens and conifers that do not fall into the intersection of those groups.
One conifer that loses its needles, and therefore is not an evergreen, is the bald cypress. These can be very attractive when covered in snow. (The bald cypress trees growing in the Heritage Garden have been pruned at the top and look like candelabras.) The needles on these trees change color in fall—the same way deciduous trees like maples and oaks do—and drop to the ground, making them look, well, bald.
Boxwoods and rhododendrons are woody plants that keep their green leaves all winter, but they do not produce cones. Boxwoods are occasionally used in wreaths and can be found in many places around the Garden.
Now here is where things actually do get confusing. Female yews produce a bright red "berry" that might make you think they are just evergreens. Actually, when you take a close look at the hard core at the center of this berry, you would see small, closed scales like those on any other "pine" cone. Yep. Juniper "berries" are also modified cones. That means yew and juniper are both evergreen and conifer.
So call your Christmas tree an evergreen or a conifer—you will be correct either way. But it's worth remembering what the two terms mean. Recognizing how things are alike and different is the driving force behind taxonomy and is also fundamental to understanding the natural world.
Have a wonderful holiday season!
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Youth Farm celebrates double digits!
The Chicago Botanic Garden's urban youth outreach and development program, Green Youth Farm, is celebrating its ten-year anniversary this year!
What started as one lone staffer and 13 teens on 1.5 acres in the Lake County Forest Preserve has grown to a program with up to six sites all across Chicago and in Lake County, cultivating a new appreciation for plants and wholesome food in 90 young people a year, while teaching them job skills for future success! Here's a year-end recap on the people and hard work that make up Green Youth Farm (GYF).
That "lone staffer" mentioned above is also known as our fearless leader and Green Youth Farm program founder, Angela Mason. Angie is also celebrating her ten-year anniversary at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Maybe you haven't met her…that's probably because Angie has kept herself pretty busy over the past ten years!
Some of the things she's developed have been the Windy City Harvest (WCH) adult certificate program in sustainable urban agriculture; the Harvest Corps program for young male offenders to learn about gardening while incarcerated and then placed in transitional jobs with our programs post release; the Kraft Foods Garden in Northfield; and most recently, a new partnership with McCormick Place to turn its green roof into a food production site. If you see Angie around the Garden, grab her quick, because she walks really fast, even in heels!
Green Youth Farm hires program graduates! To date, we have two WCH graduates on staff, and have hired 15 Green Youth Farm graduates and WCH students as summer interns.
Green Youth Farm grows food! This season alone, on less than two acres of land, students and staff grew more than 25,000 pounds of sustainable fruits and vegetables.
Green Youth Farm feeds communities! Eighty percent of the food we grow is distributed back into the food desert communities where our farms are located. We sell at below-market value prices at our community farm stands and accept all types of federal benefits — the Illinois Link Card; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); and Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program coupons — as payment. We also partner with WIC through the Community and Economic Development Association (CEDA) of Cook County, the Lake County Health Department, and Sinai Health System to distribute boxes of food to moms with young children in need.
Green Youth Farm cooks! Teens learn that "all life depends on plants" by turning the plants they grow into delicious meals! Each week, a crew cooks a wholesome, plant-based meal for their peers, staff, and farm guests.
Green Youth Farm students are successful adults! Our alumni leave GYF with a sense of community responsibility, a greater appreciation for the environment, and an understanding of what it means to be successful in whatever career they choose for themselves. They carry these values with them through life, no matter what they choose to do…whether that's college, a job, farming, or raising a family. We are proud of our GYF alums!
GYF inspires horticultural and food entrepreneurs! Former interns, growers, and coordinators have started businesses all over the United States. These include urban farms at tenspeedgreens.com, food trucks using local, sustainably grown food at luluslocaleatery.com, and sustainable floral design with fieldandflorist.com!
Green Youth Farm partners! Staff from Green Youth Farm works with more than 34 partners from all different kinds of organizations to help deliver quality programming in the communities we serve. Some of these include the Lake County Forest Preserve District, the Chicago Park District, NeighborSpace, Chicago Public Schools, After School Matters, and Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Inc.
Green Youth Farm loves volunteers! This year, GYF saw the most dedicated crew of volunteers in its history…volunteers came together to support programming when teens were on-site and do the dirty work of farming when teens were back in school. If you are interested in learning more about the work we do at GYF to cultivate the power of plants to sustain and enrich life in our city's youth, contact the Chicago Botanic Garden volunteer department!
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Using Genetics to Rescue a Rare Desert Shrub
Huddled on a sand dune, the small community of bristly Lepidospartum burgessii plants would be easy for most of us to overlook. But to scientists from the Chicago Botanic Garden, the rare shrubs shine like a flare in the night sky. This is one of two known locations of the species worldwide—both in New Mexico—and the center of a rather dazzling rescue mission.
Evelyn Williams, Ph.D., a Garden postdoctoral research associate, is pulling out all the stops to save the sensitive species. Commonly called Burgess' scale broom, it has suffered from a mysterious lack of seed production since the late 1980s.
Standing about five feet tall, the silvery-green plants only grow on gypsum dunes. They possess unique characteristics that allow them to help stabilize sand dunes in the desert conditions where they live.
"I'm interested in how we can use genetics broadly to address conservation and ecological restoration questions," said Dr. Williams. Her curiosity led her to the Garden in 2011 to join a team of genetic experts for this formidable undertaking.
The team suspects that, because the two populations of Lepidospartum burgessii are relatively small, the existing plants have interbred and are now too closely related to pollinate one another—which means they cannot produce seeds and create new plants.
Williams set out to confirm this theory, gathering plant cuttings during summer fieldwork in 2013. She hoped to grow the cuttings into full plants that she could cross-pollinate and study at the Garden. She also took samples from 320 plants back to the Garden. There, using a microsatellite technique, she recorded the genetic pattern of each plant, noting similarities and differences.
"When we have all of these different shrubs from a population, we want to use a fine genetic tool to tease apart genetic variations," she explained. The microsatellite approach allowed her to identify genetic markers occurring in multiple plants down to the finest level of detail.
The results were encouraging. Williams found enough genetic diversity within the two populations that they should be able to cross pollen, or DNA material, and produce seeds. "Because there is diversity in these populations, we're really hopeful that if we do a genetic rescue we can get some seeds in these two different populations," said Williams. A genetic rescue, she explained, is when a species is revived with the addition of new genes, which normally occurs during pollination.
That day didn't come right away, as the cuttings failed to grow in the Garden greenhouses. Accustomed to the trial and error process of scientific discovery, Williams moved on to her backup plan.
She returned to the field in October, where she personally carried pollen-filled flowers from one population of plants to another, brushing the fluffy yellow blooms against other plants that may accept their genetic material. With plants as much as one mile apart, it was a process of patience and precision.
She will soon look for seeds in the resulting buds from that pilot study with an x-ray machine in the Garden's Harris Family Foundation Plant Genetics Laboratory.
Williams is poised for the challenge of whatever she may, or may not, find. Ultimately, she hopes to convey a successful technique to land managers who carry out the daily work of furthering the species and enriching the biodiversity of the southwestern landscape.
"I really like that as part of the Garden we can help these public agencies and use our knowledge of genetics and conservation to stabilize and increase some of these rare populations. That's really important to me," said Williams.
She has been intent on advancing conservation science since childhood, inspired by her aunt, an ecologist. Her interest grew into expertise as she studied the genetics of ferns while earning her Ph.D. in botany at the University of Wisconsin.
In winter at the Garden, Williams takes every opportunity to walk through the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden. "I like being here in the winter and seeing a side of the Garden that's unexpected: the snow and the beautiful structures in the Malott Japanese Garden," she said.
Perhaps it is that perspective, of looking for the unexpected, that will unlock the mystery of Lepidospartum burgessii one day soon.
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Tree-O-Caching in Fall
This is a treasure hunt to find trees.
Follow the clues to find them with ease.
Each clue has a hint to the tree's location,
And a few facts for identification.
The numbers provided are GPS* clues,
Just in case our rhyming stumps you.
When you get to each tree you're meant to find,
Read the message on the large brown sign.
*GPS coordinates give the general area and my not be exact. Use them to get in the vicinity, then look for a tree that fits the clues. (All trees can be found in adjacent gardens on the west side of the main island.) Don't have a GPS device? You can use your iPhone or Android phone's compass utility to follow the clues. Remember: leave any seeds you find for the critters that need food for winter!
Enter a Garden of native flowers and grasses;
Walk 'round the fence and try not to pass this.
It's tall and stately, and rough is its bark;
Look up to see woody, small berries, which are dark.
If you go past the fliers, frozen midflight,
"backtrack" your footsteps to the tree that is "right."
iPhone Compass: N 42˚ 08'54″ W 87˚ 47'31″
If these trees were shorter, this clue'd be a hard one.
Follow the path through the Landscape Garden.
An evergreen trio are loaded with seeds;
They form narrow cones—look up high to see.
You may cross a stream discover these gems,
Enjoying the moisture, to the water they bend.
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For those who love fall color it's plain to see,
Edna Kanaley Graham would have loved this next tree.
Come into the garden, where spring bulbs sleep.
Look right in the entrance and take a quick peep.
This tree's fruits (now all fallen) are small prickly balls,
Star-shaped leaves are what's left now—orange and yellow in fall.
iPhone Compass: N 42˚ 08'53″, W 087˚ 47'34″
Near the Circle Garden and the whistling of trains,
A group of large trees makes nuts from sun, air, and rain.
Squirrels and critters think that these nuts are great;
It's also a favorite of Ohio State!
Can't find our trees on your wander? Look down:
This time of year, fruit and husks litter the ground.
iPhone Compass: N 42˚ 08'50″, W 087˚47'34″
From here, it's off to the Enabling Garden you go;
Where a smattering of these trees you'll find in a row.
This specimen grows very large heart-shaped leaves;
Long, narrow seed pods hang from its eaves.
Either side of the path they drip like fresh wax;
We hope from these clues you discover the facts.
iPhone Compass: N 42˚ 08'49″, W 087˚ 47'25″
Our ephemeral signs have now been removed from each site, but here are the answers:
- Hackberry (Celtis Occidentalis)
- Norway spruce (Picea abies 'Acrocona')
- Moraine sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua 'Moraine')
- Red buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
- Northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa)
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Cicadas by the Numbers
Cicadas have been out and singing for a while now. If you live around trees, you may be enjoying their late summer serenade. You also may be finding them on the ground. After they emerge from underground burrows, they molt and enter their adult stage. Then they mate, lay eggs, and die. When you find one, you can examine it to learn more about these big bugs.
Did you know that cicadas have five eyes?
In school we learn that insects have compound eyes, and we use toy bug eye viewers to get a sense of what dragonflies and bees see. But the real picture is a little more complicated. In addition to the pair of compound eyes, many insects, including cicadas, have three simple eyes. They are easy to see on a cicada if you look carefully.
The simple eyes are called ocelli, and they are usually arranged in a triangle between the compound eyes, like those in picture of the cicada's face. Grasshoppers, bees, and praying mantids also have them.
Let's do some cicada math!
If you find a cicada on a tree or the ground, see if you can count:
1 mouth part to drink sap from trees
2 antennae that grow under the eyes and look like whiskers
3 body parts: head, thorax, and abdomen
4 wings, arranged in two pairs
5 eyes, 3 simple + 2 compound
6 legs
Want more cicada by the numbers? Click here to download a Color-by-Number Cicada.
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Working toward a new harvest—on top of McCormick Place
Earlier this summer I stood on the rooftop of the McCormick Place convention center along Chicago's lakefront and looked around. In front of me were vast rectangular trays of a monoculture of low yellow sedum and bare soil.
What I saw in my mind's eye was bed after garden bed bursting with kale, collards, carrots, radishes, lettuces, peppers, beans, beets, tomatoes, and herbs. For in that space, as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden's ongoing mission to promote sustainable gardening and to train Chicago residents for jobs in urban agriculture and green industries, we had just launched the largest farm-to-fork rooftop garden in the Midwest.
In partnership with SAVOR…Chicago, the food service provider for McCormick Place, the Garden has created a 20,000-square-foot rooftop enterprise that will likely yield about 4,000 pounds of produce this year—its first—and double or triple that amount in subsequent years. Already, we are well on our way to that first half-season harvest.
Within this enormous rooftop garden we will expand our urban agriculture capabilities, create more hands-on training and job opportunities for our Windy City Harvest participants, and serve as a local source of fresh produce to this major international convention center. Later this summer, we expect the first of what will be many harvests in years to come—and many lives changed for the better.
The McCormick Place rooftop garden was designed and planted by Angela Mason, the Garden's director of urban agriculture, and staff from our Windy City Harvest program, which offers the state's first accredited urban agriculture certificate.
Over the past five years, Windy City Harvest has planted and maintained five acres of vegetable gardens at six Chicago locations. This newest rooftop garden, like the other sites, will become one of the program's living laboratories, offering hands-on experience to Windy City Harvest students.
As I lingered on the rooftop that day, contemplating the garden-to-be in front of me amid the magnificent expanse of Chicago, I felt acutely my place as one of many people, within the Garden and well beyond, committed to the idea of making the world a better place, one step—or one garden bed—at a time.
Read more about the Chicago Botanic Garden's urban agriculture programs.
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Food for Thought from Garden Interns
Everyone one must eat. This basic need creates both common ground and opportunity for Myrna Vazquez and Sophie Krause, Chicago Botanic Garden interns bringing vegetables to market as they prepare for careers in environmental education.
"Food is more than a daily life necessity, it is a link to our cultures, economies, industries, and environments," said Krause, who recently graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz. "Because of this, I see food as a powerful tool for fostering a more environmentally literate society."
The Garden's Windy City Harvest urban agriculture certificate program, an accredited nine-month course offered in partnership with the Richard J. Daley College, is providing Krause and Vazquez a practical, hands-on education in sustainable urban agriculture. Six months of study at the college's Arturo Velasquez Institute taught the two women such farming techniques as soil testing, prepping raised beds, seeding, and planting. Their knowledge is growing through a three-month internship in the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden.
"I'm learning to grow beautiful, functional, and educational gardens," said Vazquez, who worked in an after-school drug-prevention program before enrolling in the certificate program as part of a midlife career change. Vazquez says she's absorbing all the Garden has to offer, including beekeeping, natural pest control and native plant gardening.
The women gain market-management skills when they sell the produce at the Garden's bimonthly Farmers' Markets, offered the first and third Sundays of the month through
October 30. "Nothing feels better than working hard to harvest for market, where I get to see the whole system come full circle—from planting a seed to feeding a customer and to helping the Windy City Harvest program grow," Krause said. "Today's food system demands a revival, and it feels good to be part of that process."
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org
Winter Farming
Whenever I tell anyone that I work for the Chicago Botanic Garden, the first response I get is "Wow, you must have the best job ever!" (well, yes, in fact I do) followed quickly by "So, what do you do in the winter?" In response to this question, I have spent the last month or so keeping a photo journal of some winter days at Green Youth Farm.So what is it we do in the winter?
Even though everything looks like it is frozen solid, under hoophouses and low tunnels, tucked beneath coldframes and cozy in greenhouses, food continues to grow! Spinach, lettuce mix, and swiss chard will be harvested all winter long, while carrots, onions, and kale await warmer weather and contribute to an earlier spring harvest. Last year alone, Green Youth Farm and Windy City Harvest grew more than 80,000 pounds of produce—all on less than four acres of land. This number would not be possible without maximizing our short Chicago growing season with low-tech season extension.
In addition to growing produce we keep beehives, and last year we harvested more than 70 pounds of honey with our students (many of whom were scared silly of bees when they started the program). Over the winter, we need to check the bees to make sure they have enough food and are staying warm. We are happy to report these hives at our Washington Park location are buzzing!
Confession time: just like the home gardener, we professional gardeners face winter frustrations, too. I'm not proud to admit that we left a couple of hoses out in the garden, now full of frozen water. So yes, some of our wintertime is spent making up for summertime haste.
P.S. It was 14 degrees F. this day and the lock to the gate was frozen solid— so to add insult to injury, I had to scale the fence, get the hose, schlep the hose back over the fence…
P.P.S. Word to the wise: put the hose away in October, not February.WE TEACH
Every year, Community Gardening staff go out to corporations, schools, and garden clubs, as well as conferences and meetings (American Community Gardening Association, Good Food Fest, American Public Garden Association, etc.) spreading the gardening gospel. Last year alone, we reached more than 500 people outside the Chicago Botanic Garden. Our favorite event of the year is our own Facilitator Training program, where we teach folks interested in replicating the Green Youth Farm model more about what we do and how we do it. This year participants came all the way from Springfield!
The Green Youth Farm will hire 13 staff and more than 90 student participants. This year, we more than 50 applications for the three coordinator positions alone. In addition, each year the Green Youth Farm receives more than 250 applications from students from 15 different Chicago, North Chicago, and Waukegan high schools. It's always fun reconnecting with former students during high-school recruiting visits.WE MEET
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LateDroid's JuiceDefender may have the silliest name of all these apps, but there's nothing silly about how it helps you save battery life. This is a very straightforward program with a simple interface. Whether you use its preset modes or you elect to tweak every setting to get the most from the program it's a simple way to save battery life.
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"I think that so many of these newspapers, if they stand on their own, are going to have a tough time existing three, four, five years from now," Lynch said. "This gives us such a strong base of operations here in San Diego, we're going to have a very strong company for years to come."
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Advertising in the community publications is expected to be offered by
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- tastytamarind Feb 14, 2008 06:53 AM
I want to use the fresh ricotta in my fridge to make a dessert, but I can't pick between four options that all look great. Here's the menu:
guacamole and pico de gallo with crispy tortillas
tilapia veracruz style (tomato sauce with onions, jalapenos, capers, olives and raisins)
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For dessert, I've got four options. Help me pick between them! Alternatively, if you've got a great idea for a recipe, PLEASE pass it on. Thanks!
1. Lemon Ricotta Cake with lemon glaze
2. Ricotta, orange zest and honey tart
3. Chocolate ricotta pie
4. Individual trifles - sugar cookies, ricotta, berries, liqueur, etc.
My choices would be 1 or 4 (they all sound delicious, I had a hard time narrowing it to two!) One if it's not too heavy or too much work and Four because I think you could really have fun with the presentation and it's easy enough to make ahead.
That's my 2 cents anyway :)
I would make the orange and honey tart, serve it with berries and liqueur and chocolate truffles that have a little cayenne!
I'd go with the Lemon Ricotta Cake, but that's because one of my very favorite Mexican desserts is Torta de Cielo (Almond Sponge Cake) from Diana Kennedy's "The Cuisines of Mexico." For the torta, you soak the almonds for at least six hours before ginding them, which keeps the cake wonderfully moist literally for days--and it doesn't need to be refrigerated.
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I don't know your Lemon Ricotta Cake recipe, but I can tell you that Kennedy's Torta is one of the best nut cakes I've ever had. It's not fancy, but it sure is good.
Mexican style bread pudding, capirotada, often includes cheese. I wonder how ricotta would work with that?
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I noticed your raisins in your veracruz sauce. Nice touch. I recall golden raisins in only about one in ten restaurant versions in Mexico. I usually add one sweet pepper; do you use any lard, or keep it veggie? I'm a big fan of veracruz sauce in all its variations. Thanks
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#4 but then I have a thing for trifles. At another time consider chocolate cajeta flan cake. Absolutely fantastic and a crowd please every time.
um...sisnce its for a mexican dinner party, why wouldnt you make something with a Mexican or latino flair?
fried dough topped with cream (or ice cream) fruits, cinnamon sugar...
And if you must use your leftover ricotta, why not incorporate it into a flan?
Tough choice.... Mexico also has Cheese Pies made from Requeson which is similar to Ricotta... probably an influence brought by Italian immigrants so you can be quite traditional... Pay de Quesos in Mexico are commonly flavored with Orange Rind & Anise so #2 could be a good hommage... although there is nothing more Mexican than Chocolate... so #3 could also fit quite nicely.
Hey all, lovely suggestions. thanks a million. I ended up making chipotle-spiked chocolate ricotta pudding with nutmeg-chipotle tuilles and berries, and it was quite a hit -- but I have to try some of the suggestions on this thread!


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by aeroangel87 on 11/20/2012 1:26:31 AM
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by ladyinlike on 9/19/2012 4:45:24 PM
Help!! I'm 14 years old and don't have a boyfriend my friends keep on telling me that it's te for a guy, but I'm not so sure. Sometimes I think they're right, but when I like someone they either don't like me back or they do but I start freaking out. My friends tell me that I'm being silly but I'm not sure that I'm ready. Everytime my friends go out with someone, I get jeolous and they tell me that I should get one too. But how can I stop feeling left out???? Please help!!!
Hey Chicky! If you feel like you aren't ready to have a boyfriend, you are probably right. A relationship requires work. When a guy starts to like you back, and you start to freak out, don't be afraid to tell him that you need to keep it slow. He should understand. If you are getting jealous of your friends, maybe you do want a BF, so take your time to sort out your feelings. In the meantime, schedule a Girls night occasionally
by Misery13 on 9/18/2012 2:24:38 PM
by Gigilove321 on 9/10/2012 8:47:13 PM
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by Sunny79 on 9/7/2012 6:40:44 PM
by tennis1997 on 9/7/2012 6:06:26 PM
by PeytonGL on 9/6/2012 11:28:35 PM
Haha, I'm a cheerleader and I get called reallllllly mean names by guys....
by fungirl123 on 9/5/2012 3:32:59 PM
by emcee1 on 9/4/2012 10:02:45 PM
by imblonde5678 on 9/4/2012 11:51:09 AM
Cheerleaders are not always mean and stupid. I was a cheerleader up until this year when I had to pick between soccer and cheer leading. Im a straight a student and I think that I am very nice. Its kind of sad to hear these stereo types when u dont fit them!
by kaycris on 9/4/2012 11:09:00 AM
Im a cheerleader and i am not very popular, people say i am really nice, and i have staight A's. I don't like the stereotype that cheerleaders are always mean.
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by heather99 on 9/4/2012 9:48:18 AM
Some cheerleaders are nice, but some are mean. My friend thinks sometimes they turn mean because of the "mean cheerleader" stereotype. Which makes a lot of sense actuaally!
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by hpseals1 on 9/3/2012 5:51:20 PM
Ohmygod..all the guys at my school are like that...jerks
by maggie183 on 9/3/2012 5:43:24 PM
cheerleaders aren't always the most popular girls in school or ones who have less than average intelligence. i have a best friend who is a cheerleader and she has a lot of GT classes.
by N3rdyRand0mn3ss on 9/3/2012 5:33:23 PM
wow, when Bill said, "you'd probably dump them," he is sooo right! Guys date popular guys the same reason girls crush on popular guys...
by stardom96 on 9/3/2012 5:24:43 PM
Kinda untrue. In my school, there's a group of girls that are the ONLY ones that have guys and stuff. Some of them are pretty, but (no offence to them) some of them aren't very pretty. I think guys are just dating them because they're popular and mean, not because they're "hot".
by ColosalMascara on 9/3/2012 5:15:54 PM
ok so i like this guy and we had a "thing for each other" last summer, but since we were on seperate teams for school, we lost touch. then i found out that at lunch during the school year, the guy i liked would go up to my best friend and say things like, "Hey girlfriend!" Or, "so when's our date?" when i heard that he did that, i decided to give up on liking him. that was going well and i wasn't even thinking about him but now i find out that he is on my team this year and in most of my classes! and everytime i think about him i get butterflies in my stomach and i get the feeling that i still like him. so my question is, should i let him have a chance? or should i forget about him altogether and look for someone else? and if i should give him a chance, how do i get his attention and show him that i like him? sorry this was so long but if you could answer this asap because school starts tomorrow and im freaking out!
by emcee1 on 9/3/2012 3:08:16 PM
Ugh, I hate the "All cheerleaders are annoying and popular" stereo type! I do cheer, and I'm not popular or anything like the stereo type! I also know lots of people who aren't popular who do cheer! Bill and Dave do nothing to help the reputation of cheerleaders...
by taytaychicken331 on 9/3/2012 3:07:17 PM
I've tried posting this at least 5 times but I'm not getting a response. how can I tell if I like this guy? Whtare your top 5-10 signs? Do you think I do If I'm obsessing over it this much, stare at hima lot and associate a song with him? Thanks MOD, please plaes please please answer!
by teampeetapercy on 9/3/2012 3:02:17 PM
This isn't very helpful. Are they saying "nice girls" aren't wothwhile to most guys?
by teampeetapercy on 9/3/2012 2:58:12 PM
Should I tell my BFF who I Like? She knows him. She might tease me alittle but she's probably help me talk to him and stuff, and she might hink he's a good crush for me. should I tell her who I like? thanks MOD!!
by teampeetapercy on 9/3/2012 2:57:23 PM
How can I ask someone if I can sit by thme at lunch? I might not have lubch with friends this year (I;'m tarting h.s.) and we barely have classes. I want to make new friends because sometimes I don't like mine anyways. How can I make more friends, and also how can I make friends with guys? THanks MOD!!!
by teampeetapercy on 9/3/2012 2:56:11 PM
HOw can I talk to my crush (who is the junior drum major in marching bnad, and I'm just a random freshman) without looking weird? I see him tomorrow at pratice. What should I say to him? THanks MOD! Hannah H.
by teampeetapercy on 9/3/2012 2:55:00 PM
by teampeetapercy on 9/3/2012 2:53:49 PM
How can I make sure I like thia guy? I think I like him but what are some signs I like him?THanks!
by teampeetapercy on 9/3/2012 2:53:23 PM
by cgirl751 on 9/3/2012 1:33:34 PM
by Prim on 9/3/2012 12:42:46 PM
I dont get how guys date mean girls...
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by paipailarz on 9/3/2012 12:01:26 PM
by elevenbailey on 9/3/2012 11:21:10 AM
Maybe they're just really feminine men...
by JBgal33♥ on 9/3/2012 11:15:15 AM
@Chloe<3 Hahaha. You never know~
And yeah I agree with the post. Sadly, it happens.
by Gabriella123 on 9/3/2012 11:03:50 AM
Omg Bill and Dave are hilarious!!!
by Butterfly_lover on 9/3/2012 9:16:53 AM
Cheerleaders aren't all mean!! :/ We're nice girls too!
@Chloe<3: haha(: I wonder...
by beachychick on 9/3/2012 1:03:44 AM
Im starting to think that Dave and Bill are actually girls...
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