A habitat restoration work day will be held at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve from 9 to noon Saturday, April 23. Planting shrubs and trees and pulling garlic mustard will be on the agenda. Tools will be provided, but feel free to bring a favorite shovel. Look forward to seeing some
Recognizing that global climate change demands local climate action, the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Central Kane County invites individuals from the Tri-City Area (Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles) and surrounding region to a lively online discussion and planning session, to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, on Zoom. Register
The Friends of the Great Western Trails (GWT) are honored to announce that the president of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Daniel Hebreard, is joining the Friends of the Great Western Trails to clean the GWT during this year’s annual all-volunteer trails cleanup. The start time is planned
Kiwanis One Day is an Aurora city-wide community service day to help the environment. As part One Day in Aurora, from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 9, there is a medication disposal drop-off at the Aurora Transportation Center, 233 N. Broadway, Aurora. The drop-off is accepting all medications except
A cardinal sits on a wet branch after a few hours of rain on the far East Side of Aurora recently.
By Gemini Bhalsod Spring ephemeral flowers are nature’s gems after Winter. These short-lived beauties are wildflowers that grow in woodlands in the early Spring before leaves on deciduous trees are open. They are called Spring ephemerals because they have a relatively-short blooming time. University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator Gemini
First of two parts Winona LaDuke’s article in the 2021 Spring issue of YES magazine. Tribes are reviving traditional hemp economies. “More than 20 years ago, Alex White Plume, a leader of the Oglala Lakota, planted his first hemp crop on Wounded Knee Creek, on the Pine Ridge reservation in
By Emily Steele In backyards and community gardens across Chicago, growers tend fruit and vegetable crops as diverse as the City they live in. Most have one thing in common: Lead lurking in the soil. Legacy lead, leftover from paint, gasoline, and other sources, lingers in the environment. Lead poisoning
The Just Food Initiative (JFI) of the Fox Valley is looking for a few young men and women of black heritage who would like to reclaim the agricultural skills of their grandcestors. Young Black Agri-preneurs, now in its second year, will begin in April. Youth in grades five through nine
Worry, aka anxiety, is a pervasive problem. Repeatedly worrying about numerous things is likely to cause physical illness because there is, in truth, a direct connection between mind and body. A major point of worry for several years has been Climate Change, coupled with fears about what might happen if
After a two-year hiatus, the Forest Preserve District of Kane County is happy to announce that our Earth Day tree-planting event is back. Volunteers are needed to help plant trees on the east side of Elburn Forest Preserve at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 23. All are welcome. We’ll plant hundreds
The City of Wheaton government, SCARCE, and DuPage County will present the recycling event from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 2 in the Commuter Parking Lot at Carlton and Liberty. All DuPage County residents can drop-off items. Document shredding, limit of three boxes. Syringes, epi pens, medications, sharps,
The Fox Valley Environmental Coalition invites area residents to take part in our Single-Use Plastics Survey. The purpose of this survey is to determine the regions current use of single use plastic bags and what barriers exist that make it difficult or challenging to use reusable bags. We are seeking
“Grow Your Own Groceries – in Containers!”, a free seminar that will help shoppers save money on food, build health and find the pleasures of gardening, will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at the Sugar Grove Public Library, 125 S. Municipal Drive, in Sugar Grove. During the
Naperville Park District will begin open registration for garden plots for the 2022 season at the Ron Ory Community Garden Plots beginning at noon Tuesday, March 22 for Naperville residents and at noon Thursday, March 24 for nonresidents. Each year garden plot rentals are made available to the public after
Ah, Spring! It is the mischief in me! Life resumes full and rich and complete with gardening, swimming, and picnics soon possible. Warming weather outside for walks and daydreams. All my birds returning and the first robins of the season enjoying the birdseed. The quiet of the Spring when buds
Kane County was host to its first recycling pop-up in the parking lot of the Aurora Ace Hardware at 994 N. Lake Street Saturday, March 5. The event brought as much traffic in four hours at the more visible location than in an entire week at its former location down
“Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives for Restoring our World” will screen virtually 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, as part of the One Earth Film Festival. This screening is sponsored by The Conservation Foundation, Fox River Ecosystem Partnership, and additional Fox River Watershed Partners. (See virtual information below.) This documentary follows five Native
Please join Sierra Club Valley of the Fox group at 7 p.m. Monday, March 14, on Zoom, for an evening filled with appreciation for the beauty, importance of the monarch butterfly. Environmental biologist and Fox Valley Park District natural areas technician, Ray Wronkiewicz, will share his expertise with an evening
Did you know Kendall County was home to the first female professor in the country? 1n 1878, Lisbon-native Mary Rippon joined the newly founded University of Colorado as the first woman to teach at a state university. Rippon is just one of the fascinating local women you can learn about
