Projects and Events

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BSLC Rooftop Greenhouse Tour

Sandra Suwanski, the assistant manager of the BSLC rooftop greenhouse, showed us around the different sections of the rooftop greenhouse. This is our first v...

Guest Speaker Series: Malik Coburn

Community member Malik Coburn came to speak to us about his work with permaculture, which includes stays on several farms in California as well as teaching t...

Design Your Own Flower Pots

To provide stress relief during the height of Winter quarter midterms, UCHS hosted an event for students to decorate their own flower pots and baskets.

Tulip Sale

As a fundraiser for the club we sold tulips in Reynolds Club during the week of Valentine’s Day.

Botany Treevia

Sophia Wagner (UChi’18) and Sicely Li organized and wrote questions for a botany trivia night, where club members and anyone in the UChicago community could ...

Guest Speaker Series: Prof. Eric Larsen

We were lucky enough to get a visit from Prof. Eric Larsen, who is a legendary member of the biology faculty at the college. He talked to us about the differ...

Floral Arrangement Workshop

As spring is coming, UChicago Horticultural Society is bringing a series of hands-on opportunities to campus. Our first event a floral arrangement workshop, ...

FOTA Dartsy - Decorating Succulent Pots

We were invited to participate in FOTA’s Dartsy, where we had a station for people to paint a flower pot and then have us help them to plant a succulent in i...

Gardening Day at Edible Arts Garden

For our culminating event for the academic year, UChicago Horticultural Society collaborated with the Center for Identity + Inclusion and Civic Knowledge Pro...

Campus Tree Identification Tour

Led by Charlotte Ring, our club co-president, we walked around campus and learned about the different kinds of plants growing around us. We walked from Botan...