CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Plant conservation - the garden is recognized as an important player in international plant conservation and a leader in ornamental plant development. Its plant breeding, evaluation, and introduction efforts are creating new and improved plants for midwest gardens, and its division of plant science and conservation is working on the most pressing environmental issues of our time, including invasiveness, loss of plant species biodiversity, and habitat conservation.

Educational programs - through the joseph regenstein, jr. School of the chicago botanic garden and a variety of educational and community outreach programs, the garden seeks to become the nation's preeminent teaching garden, with programming for students of all ages, including camp cbg (for ages 2-12), nature preschool, and science first, windy city harvest youth farm, and college first (for middle and high school students). College students and post-graduates participate in various intern programs, some in partnership with area universities. Finally, hundreds of classes, workshops, symposia, and eleven professional certificate programs are available through the joseph regenstein, jr. School. Each year approximately 150,000 are reached through these programs.

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