Food

Did your vegetable harvest outgrow your family's needs? 

Canning Foods  Drying Foods  Fermenting Foods  Freezing Foods  Freezing Fruits  Freezing Vegetables  Making Jams and Jellies  Pickling Foods  Preserving Tomatoes  Pressure Canner Testing

Summer storms can be severe. Be prepared.

Disaster Website  Food Safety When the Electricity is Out  Learn What to Do During a Boil Order  Food Safety After a Flood

It's farmers market time.

Cottage Food Requirements
 

Plants

Is your yard and garden ready for the summer? 

Take a Soil Test

The Illinois Plant Clinic can diagnose plant diseases.

Plant Clinic Services

Don't be bugged by pests this summer.

Extension Insect Website

Be the envy of your neighbors with a spectacular vegetable garden. 

Home vegetable gardening website

Read one of our home garden blogs 

Good Growing  The Garden Scoop  Over the Garden Fence  Flowers, Fruits, and Frass  Illinois River Hort

Manage your lawn using fewer chemicals. 

Lawn Resource from Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

Herbs can add beauty to your yard and flavor to your food.

Extension Herb Website

There may be hope for those storm-damaged trees.

Storm-damaged Trees