University of Illinois Extension Whiteside County invites you to a Living Soils and Composting Workshop taking place on Thursday, February 12, 2015, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., at the Whiteside Extension Office,100 E. Knox Street, in Morrison, IL. Presenting at the workshop will be Sharon Hartzold, USDA-NRCS, Area Resource Conservationist,
Remember last year’s summer and fall drought? Remember grumbling about the long, cold winter we experienced after? Have you noticed there are very few Japanese beetles ravaging your 2014 growing things? The two are connected. University of Illinois Entomologist Phil Nixon predicted this would occur. He estimated 2/3 of the