Super
Seed
Saturday

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Special Hours: The Garden is open until 4 p.m.
Regenstein Center

Hear from experts, explore behind-the-scenes, swap seeds with gardeners

 
Admission:
  • Free admission to Super Seed Saturday events; preregistration is not required for the Seed Swap
  • Registration is requested for the free lecture, free tours of the Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank & the Rare Book Room
  • Admission is free for Garden members. Regular parking and admission fees apply for nonmembers.
 
Highlights:

12th Annual Seed Swap
2 – 4 p.m. | Burnstein Hall & Krehbiel Gallery

Gardeners can come together to share/swap seeds and to learn more about starting seeds, saving seeds, and related topics. (Guests are not required to bring seeds to share/swap. ) Chicago Botanic Garden staff and volunteers will have displays and will be available to answer questions.

 
Seed Swap
 
 

Lecture by Teresa Peterson
1 – 2 p.m. | Alsdorf Auditorium

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Teresa Peterson 
Utuhu Cistinna Win, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and a member of the Upper Sioux Community. Teresa recently wrote, Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden, University of Minnesota Press (June 2024). She and her uncle, Super LaBatte coauthored Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stores and Storytellers, Minnesota Historical Society Press, which was selected as the Native American One Read by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Understand Native Minnesota campaign. Teresa is also the author of Grasshopper Girl, a children’s book published by Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing. Her true passion is digging in her garden that overlooks the Mni Sota River valley and feeding friends and family.

 
Teresa Peterson