As people age, they face various challenges affecting their cognitive abilities, social participation, and overall health.

Join Food Pantry Network -Heart of Illinois (HOI) in giving back this holiday season through the 12 Days of Giving!

In times of uncertainty, protecting your livelihood and assets is essential. Each farm and farm family has a unique ...

Join Master Gardener Justin Hohlen in the SVCC Greenhouse to learn about growing native plants. He will discuss plant ...

Plants have been used as medicine for thousands of years by cultures around the world. Many of these plants have been studied ...

Do you look for humor in your everyday life? Humor can be good for you as it has physical and psychological benefits. This ...

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms, and some die from environmental stress or old age.

After a wet spring and early summer, corn and soybean fields across central Illinois are entering critical reproductive stages—and so is the risk of crop disease. While the plants may look healthy ...

In a container, add dry brown rice and 1 cup water. Stir rice and water for 15-30 seconds; then drain water. Repeat this "washing" of the rice a total of 2 or 3 times until water runs clean. Or add ...

Overgrazing is the failure to match animal grazing to forage growth and production. Overgrazing occurs when animals are allowed to continuously harvest a plant without allowing the plant to feed ...

We’re nearing that time of year when we’ll start to get warnings about the potential for a frost or freeze taking place. Is there really a difference between the two? Frosts can occur even when a ...

Like almost everything else with climate change, the impacts are mostly bad news. Increasing drought severity is already driving pollinator declines in the southwest, and secondary climate change ...