Do you want to learn more about gardening, but aren’t sure where to start? Do you already know a lot, but want to see other techniques and ask questions? The Neighborhood ...

🔥 It’s BBQ Time! Join Us for the McDonough County 4-H Pork Chop Barbeque! 🍽️ Get ready for a delicious tradition! The annual McDonough County 4-H Pork Chop Barbeque is happening on Friday, May 2nd, ...

Peoria 4-H teens love to be a 4-H Federation member! The group meets monthly and work together to plan fun and educational county-wide 4-H events, special recognition opportunities for 4-H volunteers, ...

A growing concern observed last year was the lack of lateral branches—or “feathers”—on young apple trees, especially in high-density training systems like tall spindle. This can lead to "blind ...

URBANA, Ill. — The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in partnership with the Illinois Department of Agriculture, is donating meat ...

James Santiago is the latest addition to the faculty roster of the Crop Science Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. James earned his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture (bitter ...

GENOA, Ill. — On Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the day before Mother’s Day, University of Illinois Extension offers guided wildflower walks at the Natural Resource Education Center (NREC) ...

From Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist. Spring temperatures have been very typically variable so far across the Midwest. Average temperatures since mid-March have been 1 to 3 degrees above ...

OREGON, Ill. — Ogle County was represented by six local youth who competed in the Northwest Regional Competition for Illinois 4-H Horse Speaking, Horse Bowl, and Hippology earlier this month and were ...

OREGON, Ill. — With summer gardens gearing up, it’s time to take canning equipment out of storage. Illinois Extension in Boone, DeKalb, and Ogle counties offers free dial-gauge pressure canner testing ...

PEORIA, Ill. - A vital source of lean protein is now reaching even more families in Tazewell and Woodford Counties thanks to the expansion of the Hunters Feeding Illinois program through partnership ...

Fresh ginger rhizome (see photo) CAN be grown in Illinois, and it can fetch $20-25 per pound, retail, but is a challenging crop to grow. The best practices of ginger crop production in temperate ...