The Funk family harvests sap from maple trees and then boil it and evaporate the water to make Funks Grove Maple Sirup, founded in 1824.
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In Champaign, early soybean plants can be seen popping up through the fields.
A replica of an 1800s Dutch windmill draws visitors to Fulton, Illinois.
Read more: Dutch Windmill, Cultural Center Celebrate Heritage in Fulton, Illinois
A corn crib, like this one in Livingston, is type of granary used to dry and store corn.
A barn cat named Elsa poses with a smiling lamb on fifth-generation Brad Temple’s sheep farm in Serena.
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Planting in Woodford
Brooke and Kacie Haag feed sheep in the barn at their farm in Emington.
Read more: Haag Family Shows Animal Care in All Aspects of Farming
Cattle in a field in Mason during the spring
Elsah, Illinois, is known as the town the time forgot.
Read more: Experience Elsah
On a farm in Adams, wheat is growing.
Colorful ‘Swinging Linda’ coleus plants grow in a greenhouse at Garden Patch Farm in Homer Glen.
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Dandelions bloom around the Captain Swift Covered Bridge in Princeton.
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A gazebo at the Grand Rose Hotel overlooks the Ohio River in Elizabethtown.
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Commercial cattle in Mason;
A hiker and her dog enjoy the spectacular views at Garden of the Gods in Hardin County.
Read more: Out and About in Hardin County and the Illinois Ozarks
Several farms throughout Illinois are able to harvest a round of early corn, weather permitting.
Debra Smits of Smits Farms handles a tray of pansies in a greenhouse at their nursery in Chicago Heights.
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A barn in Livingston
Spring planting takes place in April for much of Illinois, including Maria Cox’s farm in White Hall in Greene County.
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Wheat just starting in the spring
Mark and Jenny Litteken examine the cover crops on their cattle farm in Aviston. They plant these crops between the winter and summer months to help the soil health on their land.
Read more: Nourishing Nutrients: How Farmers Manage Soil Health to Grow Better Crops
A red-tailed hawk swoops along the bluffs at White Rock Nature Preserve in Valmeyer.
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On an Adams farm, wheat is growing.
Wayne Sirles inspects plants in a greenhouse at Rendleman Orchards in Alto Pass.
Read more: Meet the Buyers Program Plants Seeds of Partnership
In Shelby, farmers are hard at work planting this spring.
David Burns of Long Lane Honey Bee Farms in Fairmount marks queen bees for identification purposes.
Read more: Long Lane Honey Bee Farms is the Bee’s Knees
Bill McNitt selects spring flowers at his nursery, McNitt Growers in Carbondale.
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Allie Robinson picks strawberries at McLaughlin Strawberry Farm in Murphysboro.
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Layla White waters one of the raided bed gardens at Eden Place Farms in the Fuller Park neighborhood in Chicago.
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Monica Stevens of Knox County feeds her Shorthorn cattle on a cold, early spring day.
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The Cross at the Crossroads stands over Interstates 57 and 70 in Effingham.
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