Life Hacks Over Lunch: A Meet-up Series for Watershed Professionals
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is…
Life Hacks Over Lunch: A Meet-up Series for Watershed Professionals
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is…
Soil Health and Livestock: The above and below ground benefits of livestock on the land
Join us for a unique regional training highlighting the science, management, and soil health benefits of integrating livestock into the farm. The workshop will take place in Ames, Iowa and is led by Iowa State Extension in collaboration with the Soil Health Nexus. We welcome agriculture & conservation professionals as well as farmers, landowners and…
Iowa Learning Farms Weekly Webinar
Join Iowa Learning Farms weekly webinars on Wednesdays at 12pm CT. The webinars dive into a variety of topics each week related to conservation agriculture, improving water quality, farmer communications, nutrient management, and more.
Iowa Learning Farms Weekly Webinar
Join Iowa Learning Farms weekly webinars on Wednesdays at 12pm CT. The webinars dive into a variety of topics each week related to conservation agriculture, improving water quality, farmer communications, nutrient management, and more.
Illuminating Art in Nature
The Red Oak Rain Garden University of Illinois Extension team presents the second annual Illuminating Art in Nature autumnal celebration. A campus–community collaboration led by Extension, Illuminating Art in Nature brings together imagination, sustainability, and education in a magical setting. Centered around student talent, the event features installations inspired by the films of Studio Ghibli, glowing…
2025 Illinois NLRS Annual Partnership Conference
This event will provide an overview of Illinois’ ongoing efforts to reduce nutrient losses and will bring together researchers, policymakers, agency staff, and stakeholders to share knowledge and strengthen Illinois’ Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy. The conference is open to the public and offers an in-person and virtual option for attendance. This year’s agenda features presentations…
2025 Workshop for Watershed Leaders
Allerton Park & Retreat Center 515 Old Timber Road, Monticello, ILThe Fishers & Farmers workshops connect farmers, landowners, and collaborators with others who are working for sustainable farms, streams and communities in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Registration is officially open for the November 5-7th workshop in Monticello, IL. At the interactive, no-lecture, professionally-facilitated workshop participants will hear new perspectives, ask questions that matter, host conversations, tell stories of challenge and success,…
Iowa Learning Farms Weekly Webinar
Join Iowa Learning Farms weekly webinars on Wednesdays at 12pm CT. The webinars dive into a variety of topics each week related to conservation agriculture, improving water quality, farmer communications, nutrient management, and more.
Improving Choices: Farmer Takeaways from the National Cover Crop Variety Project
Join Soil Health Institute for a farmer-focused webinar featuring Dr. Etienne Sutton, who will break down key insights from the latest 2024–2025 National Cover Crop Variety Project (NCCVP) report. This nationally coordinated, USDA-funded research effort evaluates cover crop performance across regions and growing conditions aimed to empower farmers with the data they need to make…