Are you new to starting your own vegetable garden seeds? Doing it yourself can save you money and get you involved with the food you eat from seed to harvest. In this video, Illinois Extension horticulture educator Chris Enroth demonstrates seed starting while at home during the...
Foster the love of gardening with the youth in your life by creating theme gardens. Join Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Brittnay Haag as she shares ideas and tips for creating a special place for your young, hands-on learner to grow, explore, and be creative. Whether it’s at...
Learn some quick, easy, and highly engaging garden activities that require minimal preparation that can be used by anyone who works with youth! Horticulture Extension educator Brittnay Haag discusses simple and fun ways to get youth engaged in gardening.
Bring the garden into the schoolyard with our online School and Community Gardens Self-Paced Learning Modules. A school garden can be many things, from a pollinator garden, to a sensory garden, or a bulb garden. Our online learning modules focus on vegetable gardening while we take you on a...
Carla Walker facilitates the reports out from the breakout rooms at the 2020 Equitable Green Infrastructure Summit. Breakout room topics included: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; Workforce Development; Community Planning Policy and Practice; and Extension/Sea-Grant Network Development.
Ned Willig, Great Lakes Commission
Ned Willig talks about how the Green Infrastructure Champions empowers communities and supports the development of green infrastructure in the Great Lakes region at the 2020 Equitable Green Infrastructure Conference.
Brenda Scott Henry, Director of the City of Gary Office of Sustainability and Environmental Affairs
Brenda Scott Henry discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing an equitable green infrastructure program in Gary, Indiana including methods of community engagement and...
Jane Gerdes, PE, City of Peoria Department of Public Works
Jane Gerdes discusses the “why” and the “how” of Peoria’s green infrastructure approach to addressing their combined sewer overflows at the 2020 Equitable Green Infrastructure Summit.
Maragret Schneeman, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant; Kara Riggio, OAI; Lisa Krause, IDNR Coastal Management Program
Three members of the Calumet Stormwater Collaborative talk about their work in equitable green infrastructure including a workforce development study, shared services agreements...
“What we learned from the equitable green infrastructure community listening sessions” Tony Heath, PE, University of Illinois Extension Tony Heath provides some key equitable green infrastructure lessons learned and best practices from 18 community listening sessions held across the Midwest in...