The Garden will be open for regular hours on Monday, February 16, for Presidents’ Day—but that’s just the beginning! On that same day, NYBG is thrilled to welcome Carla Hall, celebrity chef, co-host of ABC’s The Chew, and NYBG Edible Academy Committee Member, for a live cooking demonstration at 12:30 p.m. to kick off Carla Hall’s Culinary Kids Week! This family-friendly food festival invites kids to explore the relationships between plants, farms, and their favorite foods through a full schedule of programs and activities.
The rest of the week includes daily cooking demonstrations at 1 p.m. by a series of special guests preparing their favorite recipes. Visiting chefs will include Kate Gardner; Stacey Antine, HealthBarn USA; David Mawhinney, Haven’s Kitchen; George Edwards, Garden-to-Cafe; Matt Abdoo, Del Posto; and Alicia Walter, Vetri Ristorante.
The Kids Kitchen Corner and ongoing Activity Stations—featuring Big Apple Edibles, the Hudson Valley Seed Library, and more—fill the Conservatory Tent. The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory hosts a Tropical Treasure Hunt that leads kids through the plants included in Wild Medicine in the Tropics. Kids can even participate in preparing their own healthy snack to take home at daily Culinary Workshops at 11 a.m., and 12 and 2 p.m. (first-come, first-served registration), with different instructors each day from the Edible Academy, HealthBarn USA, Growing Chefs, Kendall Holmes, Butter Beans, and Michelle Warner.
This weekend includes several ways to escape the cold. In fact, step out of your entire ecosystem and into Wild Medicine in the Tropics in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to admire a stunning variety of medicinal plants in the rain forest galleries. With tours of the exhibit and the Conservatory, a journey awaits within the warm glasshouse. Shutterbugs can even participate in Photography Tips & Tricks in the Tropics and enjoy a tour along with photo advice from NYBG’s experts. Submit your best shots for consideration in our Wild Medicine Photo Contest!
The Haupt Conservatory will also be the center of next week’s Valentine’s Day Dates, exclusively for MasterCard® cardholders. Kids can also celebrate the sweetest holiday with our Budding Masters Valentine’s Day Chocolate Adventure. Click through for this weekend’s full schedule of special tours and programs.
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the first week of our Wild Medicine Photo Contest. This year’s contest is off to a promising start with some very beautiful submissions. You’ll certainly appreciate them as much as we did. Week 2 officially began on Saturday, January 31, so all photos taken inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and uploaded to the NYBG Flickr Group Pool with the tag “#wildmedicine2015” before 6 p.m. tomorrow will be eligible for consideration in the next round. There is plenty of time to participate, as the contest lasts until February 20 while the Wild Medicine in the Tropics exhibition is on display in the Haupt Conservatory.
Weekly winners are selected in two categories, Macro (close-up) and Sense of Place (wideshot). Because this week’s submissions did not include enough Sense of Place photos, only one weekly winner was selected in this category. Otherwise, click through to to view the First Place and First and Second Runner-Up winners in the Macro category, as well as the First Place winner in the Sense of Place category.
New York might not seem like a hub of romance right now, what with the iced over sidewalks and sounds of cars spinning their tires in the snow, but trust me when I say that there’s at least one place in the city where the cozy warmth and inviting atmosphere of Valentine’s Day is alive and well. Returning for another year on February 14, our intimate Valentine’s Day Date will once again provide you with an opportunity to treat your nearest and dearest to a night of champagne, delectable aphrodisiacs, and tropical escapism in NYBG’s Haupt Conservatory.
Exclusively for MasterCard holders, this special evening for adults takes place amid the highlights of Wild Medicine in the Tropics, a showcase of the Conservatory’s permanent collection and the unique medicinal plants that are housed there.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe.
I wasn’t looking for blue. I was looking for black…the darkest shade I could find. But I found Indigo™ ‘Blue Berries’ in the pages of Territorial Seed catalog and fell in love. For clarity, Indigo™ ‘Blue Berries’ is Solanum lycopersicum—not Vaccinium corymbosum. If you’re not yet savvy with the nomenclature, that means we’re talking about tomatoes rather than blueberries.
The old English rhyme above was instruction for a bride on what to wear at her wedding. The list was full of superstitions and fertility prayers. That said, I am hoping that Indigo™ ‘Blue Berries’ will be not only fertile, but positively prolific. Let me start from the beginning.
The Garden will be open for regular hours on Monday, February 16, for Presidents’ Day—but that’s just the beginning! On that same day, NYBG is thrilled to welcome Carla Hall, celebrity chef, co-host of ABC’s The Chew, and NYBG Edible Academy Committee Member, for a live cooking demonstration at 12:30 p.m. to kick off Carla Hall’s Culinary Kids Week! This family-friendly food festival invites kids to explore the relationships between plants, farms, and their favorite foods through a full schedule of programs and activities.
