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Back To Nature

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
2003


Inside the greenhouse - native Connecticut plants
collected from land slated for development:



All greenhouse systems powered by solar energy:



solar grow lights, ventilation fans and irrigation systems
nurture plants in the greenhouse:




While collecting plants, specimens were saved
and pressed for an herbarium book - additional
descriptive pages include information about
traditional and contemporary uses of these
plants as foods and medicines