A new initiative has mapped low-income communities without ready access to healthy and affordable food across the state. Find out if you’re near one of these food deserts with a locator tool by the USDA.
Most of the spring plants in your yard and garden require protection when overnight frost is predicted. Here are a few methods for sheltering plants in garden beds.
Quaker Oats donated a high-temp pasteurization unit to the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences’ Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.
Illinois Farm Families takes suburban moms onto Illinois farms to help them learn about the realities of farming.
Facts and trivia about the season’s romantic plant: mistletoe.
This winter, swap out your artificial tree for an evergreen variety.
In celebration of Geography Awareness Week, November 13-19, Linda Zellmer has created a way to connect consumers to where their Thanksgiving dinner originates.

Rosemary, a perennial evergreen shrub, can easily be grown in a home or garage during the winter months. The key is to make sure the area is cool and moist.
An estimated 88 percent of Americans surveyed still serve turkey for Thanksgiving. But do you know your turkey, really? Chew on this turkey trivia.
A Yorkville, Illinois, soybean farmer was part of a team that helped send soy flour to families in Afghanistan.