About the Instructor: Emilia Arellano is the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance’s Greenhouse Coordinator. She oversees a dedicated corps of volunteers in propagating ornamental plants from the Conservatory’s collections for GPCA fundraisers and growing produce for donation to locally based community organizations. She is a Master Gardener, a Tree Keeper and holds certificates in Sustainable Urban Agriculture, Edible Landscaping and Business and Entrepreneurship for Local Foods from Windy City Harvest. She has extensive volunteer experience working in school and community gardens throughout Chicagoland. Her current horticultural interests focus on the multifaceted ways in which plants contribute to healing people and the physical spaces that they inhabit.