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Home » plants

Tag: plants

Posted inMusic

Dropping beats and seeds

by Alejandro Hernandez May 11, 2022May 17, 2022

Englewood rapper Heavy Crownz blends art and community organizing.

Posted inCity Life

Propagation in isolation

by Maya Dukmasova April 28, 2020August 18, 2021

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but other trees do!

Posted inMusic

Plants love DeBarge on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin April 1, 2020August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist and educator Nicole Marroquin.

Posted inMusic

Plantasia celebrates the music of Mort Garson—and plants

by Izzy Yellen September 19, 2019August 18, 2021

On his 1976 album Mother Earth’s Plantasia, composer Mort Garson captures some of the most inventive sounds and most radical notions of the mid-70s. Specifically, he made his goofy and endearing compositions solely on the relatively new Moog synthesizer, and he intended that they be played for plants to help them grow. Inspired by his […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Glass house people

by Taylor Moore July 31, 2019August 18, 2021

The Leider family and an estimated 200,000 Chicagoans trace their heritage to settlers from the tiny nation of Luxembourg.

Posted inCity Life

Eat a tomato, thank the bumblebee

by Nance Klehm May 30, 2019August 18, 2021

A bee brain is vastly more efficient than a human brain.

Posted inCity Life

A primer on wild plants we call weeds

by Nance Klehm March 20, 2019August 18, 2021

As our world greens up this spring, an examination of what lies beneath.

Posted inCity Life

Growing archive

by Salem Collo-Julin March 19, 2019August 18, 2021

Hyperlocal seed libraries preserve diversity in the food chain.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘We’re still here’

by Natalya Carrico March 18, 2019August 18, 2021

The First Nations Garden in Albany Park aims to heal the community and the environment.

Posted inNews & Politics

Epic houseplant fails

by Sarah Beckett March 13, 2019August 18, 2021

For every plantshelfie on Instagram and beautifully styled ‘it plant’ of the moment (pink princess, anyone?), there exist several pet-chewed, brown-fried-leaf, dying-dead failures.

Posted inNews & Politics

This week’s Chicagoan: Rosita Arvigo, master herbalist

by Anne Ford May 30, 2013August 19, 2021

This week’s Chicagoan is Rosita Arvigo, a master herbalist.

Posted inBlogs

A chat with Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist

by Aimee Levitt April 5, 2013August 19, 2021

The author discusses her new book, about the relationship between plants and booze.

Posted inNews & Politics

Where Has All the Flora Gone?

by James Krohe Jr. April 14, 1988August 20, 2021

The Effort to Catalog and Protect Illinois’ Endangered Plants

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