Events

Nutrition and Caregiving: Challenges and Training Needs

Community Seminar Series: Autumn Health Picks 2025
Discover tools to address nutritional challenges and support older adults with confidence. 

Family caregivers are vital in supporting older adults with diet-related chronic conditions, but…

Dementia Friends

Thinking, Learning, Caring Webinar Series 2025
Learn simple ways to better understand, support, and connect with people living with dementia.

Dementia Friends is a global movement with the goal of helping everyone in a community understand five…

4-H Volunteer Training: Supporting the Creating with Building Bricks Project

Volunteers, learn more about this new 4-H project!

Thursday, October 9, 7 to 8:15 pm

Come learn about the new Creating with Building Bricks project and how you can channel youth’s love of…

Roots & Shoots: A Beginner's Guide to Botany

County: Lee, Carroll, Whiteside

Join Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Bruce Black for an introduction to the world of plants and the study of botany. The session will be held at the Sauk Valley Community College…

Adult Mental Health First Aid for the Agricultural Community

Mental Health First Aid for the Agriculture Community 2025
Learn to identify and respond to mental health and substance use challenges in the ag community.

This specialized training is designed for those in the agricultural community, providing…

Wits Fitness CGH Sterling | October

County: Whiteside, Lee, Carroll

Engage in interactive activities designed to enhance cognitive function and memory in Wits Fitness Brain Exercises offered by University of Illinois Extension. Classes are held on the second…

Wits Fitness Prophetstown | October

County: Whiteside, Lee, Carroll

Do you wish your brain could be more agile? Is your memory not as sharp as you would like? Engage in interactive activities designed to enhance cognitive function and memory in Wits Fitness Brain…

Honey and Health: Nature's Sweet Treat

Lessons for Living Webinar Series 2025
Learn more about honey and its benefits.

Honey is nature's perfect gift, produced from the nectar of flowers. There are 320 varieties of honey, which vary in color, odor, and flavor depending on…

Uncovering the Winter Secrets of Whip-poor-wills 

Everyday Environment Series 

Often heard and rarely seen, the eastern whip-poor-will and its namesake nighttime call is an iconic Midwestern woodland bird. But like many other insect-…

Gardening in the Air! Virtual Gardening Symposium

Join us for our annual fall online event: Gardening in the Air!, a free virtual gardening symposium featuring horticulture experts from University of Illinois Extension and Iowa State University…

College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences Illinois Extension

101 Mumford Hall (MC-710)

1301 W. Gregory Dr.

Urbana, IL 61801

Email: extension@illinois.edu

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