Conserving water for lawn and garden care can dramatically lower your water bill. Here are a few tips for reducing water use outdoors.
We’ve added a rain barrel to our native plant garden to collect chlorine-free rainwater for watering our new plants.
Any successful project starts with a plan. Here’s what you need to consider when planning a native plant garden.
Follow our Garden Refresh project as we update our garden beds with beautiful, environmentally friendly native plants!
A rain garden can help solve flooding problems on your property and add attractive landscaping to your yard.
Freshwater mussels are important members of the aquatic community, but face several challenges today.
Pet waste spoils other’s enjoyment of the outdoors, degrades the water quality of local streams, and can be a public health hazard.
Pick up the poop every time, everywhere! When walking your dog, come prepared with bags and always throw the waste into a garbage bin.
Ever wonder how fish make it through our cold winters? Fish have several strategies to slow down and survive the winter.
Anti-icing is a proactive approach to clearing snow and ice. Liquid deicers are sprayed on the roads before a storm.
Salt works by lowering the freezing point of water, causing ice to melt even when the temperature is below water’s normal freezing point.
Different kinds of dragonflies have their own method for surviving (or avoiding) cold northern Illinois winters.
Leaf collection and street cleaning, especially right before it rains, can dramatically reduce the amount of nutrients entering rivers.
