Bats are an iconic symbol of spooky season, and more than 800 people attended the first Central Illinois Bat Festival on Sept ...

What happens to ibuprofen after it eases your throbbing headache? Like many pharmaceuticals, it can remain in an active form ...

The 4-H Leaders and Club Officers Training has been postponed until early 2025. Watch your 4-H news letter and email updates ...

Join us at Camp Sacajawea (4220 Ghost Hollow Rd. Quincy, IL 62305) for an afternoon under the fall canopy. This guided walk ...

A lack of water drainage and soil conservation practices in agricultural operations can weigh heavily on farm profitability ...

Nature at the Red Oak Rain Garden celebrates autumn with the bright purples of blooming aster flowers, a mosaic of tree ...

The quarterly Extension Council meeting for Christian, Jersey, Macoupin, and Montgomery counties will be on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.

Join University of Illinois Extension Educator Michele Crawford for Meditation Mornings. This free virtual series consists of ...

With the 2024 growing year coming to an end, producers and farm operators are beginning to focus on the 2025 growing year. Producers are making decisions on what seed varieties they will plant, how ...

Halloween night may be filled with frights, but garbage day is where the real horror lurks. Discarded by the 1,000s, decaying jack-o-lanterns and rotting pumpkins are hauled off to landfills by the ...

In the U.S., food waste is a big problem. Nationally, landfills and trash incinerators receive 167 million tons of garbage a year. Half of that is compostable and 21% is food scraps. This means that ...