Organize your community resources when extreme weather hits
URBANA, Ill. – Illinois River flooding in 2019 was so extreme that residents of Calhoun County found themselves isolated during the worst of the event. With roads closed and the ferries that typically provide transportation not operational, travel in and out of the peninsula was impossible. For...

What's the Best Diet/ Plant-Based Eating Trend Grows
  DECATUR, Ill. — Whether it’s due to health concerns, ethics or sustainability, American diets are changing. While only 6% of Americans are vegetarian and 3% vegan, almost 40% are shifting toward eating more plant-based foods according to a ...

Facts For Families

Facts for Families - Family Night In
By Cheri Burcham, Family Life Educator Overwork and over scheduling can take a toll on families and relationships as we find less time together, especially just to hang out.  Taking a break to spend some relaxed time together as a family can be a way to...

Yard and Garden - Plant a Tree---Please!
By Jacqueline Record, Master Gardener   Oh Woe!  Another storm and more broken trees in our neighborhood and, I am afraid, broken and dying trees all over the Midwest and the whole world.  Global warming, storms, plant diseases. Urban development and rampant destruction of...

Over the Coles - 2019 Agricultural Container Recycling Program
    by David Shiley, Extension Educator      Local Food Systems and Small Farms   The Illinois Department of Agriculture offers a program, which recycles empty plastic agrichemical containers...