SubscribeSweet Saturday’s returns to the Garfield Park Conservatory on two consecutive Saturdays in February – the 6th and 13th from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The suggested donation for entry is $3 per person. Sweet Saturdays will focus on plants that provide the key ingredients to some favorite sweet treats. The Garfield Park Conservatory, a veritable plant-based candy show, is home to many living sweets such as bananas, vanilla beans, cinnamon bark, and chocolate trees. Visitors of all ages can sample the facts, the flavors and the fun of some of the most tantalizing tropical treats. Experience the following sweet activities at each Sweet Saturday:
| • | Tropical Treat Stations: Throughout the Conservatory visitors will learn a fact and sample a flavor. |
| • | Live Music: Visit Horticulture Hall’s Sweet Saturdays’ Tropical Café and take in the warm confines of the Conservatory while listening to the live tropical sounds of Mar Caribe that highlights the different native tropical regions of the Conservatory’s sweet plants. |
| • | Hands-on Activity Stations: Visitors of all ages can participate in designing a scratch and sniff necklace with cinnamon and sandpaper, designing a “leaf rubbing” Valentine’s day card, making a chocolate sachet with the sweet-smelling shells of cocoa beans, and other drop-in stations, such as a cozy Sweet Reads book nook. |
| • | Learn: Discover the process of making both vanilla and honey from special guests located in Sugar from the Sun exhibit.
— February 6 – Enjoy honey tasting, brought to you by the — February 13 – Enjoy vanilla tasting, brought to you by |
| • | Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance “Members Only” Chocolate Lounge: Members of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance can enjoy special perks and activities.
The lounge will include the following sweet activities: — Discover your inner chocolate spirit by venturing on a — Enjoy mixing up a yummy chocolate concoction ala — Play candy-themed board games that sweeten the eye, — Receive a special plant to take a little bit of the Sweet — Use the Chocolate Lounge’s free coat check available |
If you or someone you know is not already a member, memberships can be purchased on the day of each Sweet Saturday event or Click Here to Join Online.
Interested in volunteering at our Fact & Flavor Stations during these fun-filled Sweet Saturdays in February? Contact Mattie Wilson at volunteer@garfieldpark.org or call her at
773-638-1766 ext 26.