Author: Glenda

Pollinator-Friendly Garden Cleanup Oct. 8

Written on August 23, 2024.

What do you do with your native plant garden over the winter? Join Sarah Michehl, community ecologist with The Land Conservancy of McHenry County, to learn techniques for preparing your native plant garden for the upcoming...

Adventures in Conservation – CLIP Week 11 – The final week!

Written on August 9, 2024.

Hi all, and welcome to our final week of TLC’s Conservation Leader Internship Program (CLIP)! This week’s blog is written by all four interns! Monday was a full day of tiring invasive control at Tryon Grove where...

Adventures in Conservation – CLIP Week 10

Written on August 6, 2024.

Hey it’s Madi and this is week 10 of CLIP! Our week started off with a rain day on Monday that we spent on two research projects investigating teasel seeds and herbicide. We also worked on lighting our burn pile at Hennen to...

Adventures in Conservation – CLIP 2024 Week 9

Written on August 6, 2024.

Hello all and welcome to week 9! This week’s blog is written by CLIPtern Gia. We started out this Monday at Apple Creek targeting all kinds of invasive species such as parsnip, giant ragweed, sweet clover, sow thistle, and...

TLC Receives $135,000 Grant from Chicago Community Trust

Written on July 31, 2024.

Grant is designed to support the growth of the local food system in McHenry County The Land Conservancy of McHenry County (TLC) has received a $135,000 grant from The Chicago Community Trust to support the growth of the local...

Conservation@Work Spotlight – Wade Merritt

Written on July 30, 2024.

Saving pollinators became my focus after hearing Christopher Stein, the founder of Operation Pollination, speak at the Lake in the Hills Rotary Club in 2020. I did research on the drastic decline in pollinators and the causes...