Join Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Ryan Pankau for a Native Tree ID Walk at Crystal Lake Park in Urbana on October 8 at 4 p.m. as part of Climate Action Week with the East Central Illinois ...

Join us for a Tree ID Walk in the Village of Hamlet in Mercer County, where you'll learn to identify tree species by their leaves, bark, and shape, explore native and introduced tree species, and ...

Since 1992, nearly 600 Champaign County residents have completed Master Gardener training and contribute more than 11,000 hours annually to Champaign County. Master Gardener volunteers sincerely ...

Our Master Gardeners present on a different topic each month. Find out what this month's talk is by looking at our events page! This is an annual event that local gardeners wait for all winter. The ...

We’re nearing that time of year when we’ll start to get warnings about the potential for a frost or freeze taking place. Is there really a difference between the two? Frosts can occur even when a ...

During this first week of October, many of the plants blooming in our landscape are mums, asters, goldenrods, sedums, and ornamental grasses. But what if your lilac is blooming? A lilac blooming in ...

This blog post is the second in a two-part series analyzing a United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA-ERS) report on the adoption of conservation practices in ...

On July 25, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released its draft Insecticide Strategy, which was open for public comment until September 23, 2024. The goal of the strategy is to ...

Say yes to being healthy. The number of lives lost to preventable diseases is staggering. A quarter of all deaths (and some believe even up to half) could be prevented with early preventative actions, ...

The Illinois-Indiana Master Watershed Steward Program trains volunteers to promote healthy watersheds by increasing their understanding of potential causes of water resource degradation and providing ...

Are you thinking of installing a raised garden bed in your landscape? Join our Master Gardener-led program to learn the basics of raised garden beds.

LEWISTOWN, Ill - When certain plants get established in an ecosystem they can choke out the more beneficial native plants. Left unchecked, those invasive species can destroy the native ecosystem and ...