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Urban gardening
Blog Posts
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Southside Occupational Academy horticulture program seeds community
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Save money and space with container-grown fruits
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El Paseo Community Garden is not just growing food, it's growing leaders and community
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Give your front porch containers a fall makeover
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Sensory gardens invite interaction
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Spring cover crops help start the season weed-free
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Seed starting woes? Ask the pros
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Do you know when to plant in Illinois?
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Edibles or ornamentals? Container trends for 2021
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Herbs all winter: grow them indoors
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Rain gardens offer standing-water solutions
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French intensive gardens root well in Central Illinois
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Wildlife in the fall garden
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Kids in the Garden: Grow & Explore this Fall
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Take your butterfly garden to the next level
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Garden Journal: A helpful gardening tool
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The New Victory Garden
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Starting a Garden: Irrigation
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Starting a Garden: Season Extension
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Starting a Garden: Weed Management
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Starting a Garden: Cool-Season Vegetables | And my top 5 cool-season crops to grow
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Don't grow distant from your garden!
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Homegrown: DIY Hydroponics for All Gardeners
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A Primer to Supplemental Lighting for Indoor Seed Starting
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News Releases
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Cook County grows horticulture team with new bilingual educator
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Tour 10 amazing gardens on July 9 at Garden Walk 2022, hosted by the McHenry County Extension Master Gardeners and MCC
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Map reveals widespread lead pollution in Chicago backyards, parkways
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McHenry County Gardenfest Brings Spring on April 9
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Tour some of the best gardens with the McHenry County Extension Master Gardeners’ and MCC’s Garden Walk 2021 on July 10
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McHenry County Extension Master Gardeners Grow Produce ‘for Good’
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Lake County Extension Master Gardener Spring Plant Sale June 12
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Grow your green thumb this spring with free online gardening classes
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Add interest by creating a moonlight garden
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Planning, designing a native garden
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Small-batch culinary herbs add flavor to gardening menu
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Small-space containers big with new gardeners
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Refreshing raised bed soil generates exceptional results
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The time is right to plant cool season vegetables
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Gardening benefits body, mind, wallet
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Make way for new award-winning garden plants of 2021
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Get ready for spring with Gardening in the Air
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Grow great vegetables with beginner gardening webinar series
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Winter pruning boosts blackberry and raspberry harvests
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Use winter to plan for a fruit garden
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Partnering up for a pollinator garden in Normal
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Extend the life of urban forests with Urban Tree Conference
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Unsightly black spots on maple leaves won’t harm trees
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Hold on to summer with home hydroponics
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Big nutritional value from tiny plants; learn to grow microgreens
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Grow apple trees in your urban garden
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Campus rain garden certified as wildlife-friendly
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Produce farms provided COVID-19 disinfecting guidelines
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Explore and assess your seeds this winter
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Winter seed sowing
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2020 All-America Selection Winners
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Extension Presents Into to Rain Gardens Workshop
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Plant your native garden this fall
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Rain Garden Workshop
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Staff
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Navraaz Basati
Horticulture Program Coordinator
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German Cutz
Horticulture Educator
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Duane Friend
State Master Naturalist and Climate Change Specialist
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Holly Froning
Kankakee County Master Gardener & Master Naturalist Program Coordinator
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Zachary Grant
Local Food Systems and Small Farms Educator
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Douglas B. Gucker
Local Food Systems and Small Farms Educator
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