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“Growing A Tea Garden”

Wednesday, June 11 – 6:00pm-7:30pm CT Free 2025 Garden Learning Series continues at 6:00pm CT online only If you enjoy a nice cup of tea and have a flare for gardening, come learn what plants you can grow in our area to create or enhance your very own tea blends. We will focus on a vast …

Pollinators in Your Preserves: Monitoring For the Future

Wild Ones Lake-to-Prairie Chapter presents “Pollinators in Your Preserves: Monitoring For the Future”Tuesday – May 6, 2025 – 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Learn about the Lake County Forest Preserve District’s Plant-Pollinator Monitoring Program.   The Lake County Forest Preserve District ecologists began monitoring the relationships between plants and pollinators in 2023 as part of their …

Celebrating Compost!

Celebrating Compost!

Wednesday, April 9 “Celebrating Compost!”Free 2025 Garden Learning Series continues at 6:00pm CT online only Join us for an evening to celebrate compost and composting.  This program will touch on the benefits of composting for the garden, the gardener, and the planet. We’ll sprinkle in a bit of how-to and various composting methods, tools of …

Native Plants for Urban Balconies

Native Plants for Urban Balconies

You don’t need a whole yard to help pollinators! There are lots of ways to add beauty and habitat to small spaces. This article from Wild Ones was written by Urban Botanist and Scientist at Chicago Botanic Garden, Jeremie Fant, and chronicles his 15 year journey experimenting with Illinois natives on a small balcony. We …

SEED EXPO from Extension

Lake County Extension Master Gardener Seed Expo – March 8th, 2025. 10am-2pm The 2025 University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Seed Expo is March 8! Hosted in partnership with the College of Lake County, this year’s event will be held at the CLC Grayslake Campus gymnasium and will have everything you need to get ready …

Share Your Thoughts with PDHP

Share Your Thoughts with PDHP

The Park District of Highland Park is in the process of drafting a new Sustainability Plan and would like to hear from you! Please take this brief five-question survey and share what role you think the Park District can take to create a more sustainable Highland Park.

EV Battery Recycling Gets Better

EV Battery Recycling Gets Better

Are you waiting to buy an EV because you are concerned about the impact of the batteries? Wait no longer! Batteries pose a challenge and an opportunity when it comes to their disposal. The batteries contain valuable minerals that can be recovered and reused in new batteries. The challenge is in that recovery process. Mercedes-Benz ...