Lisa, Author at The Land Conservancy of McHenry County

Author: Lisa

Enter TLC’s 2022 Amateur Photography Contest

Written on March 7, 2022.

Art of the Land Amateur Photography Contest The Land Conservancy of McHenry County (TLC) hosts this contest every year to highlight the inspiring natural landscapes found throughout McHenry County. Once you sign up we’ll...

Taking Care to be Anti-Racist

Written on June 11, 2020.

The same month that I was born, August 1963, was when Martin Luther King Jr gave his “I have a dream speech,” in which he said he dreamed of a day when his “four little children will one day live in a nation...

Let the Sun Shine In

Written on July 20, 2018.

If you drive along Illinois Route 120 between Woodstock and McHenry, you have surely seen the Wolf Oak Woods property. This is the site where “that oak” lives. You know, the large bur oak whose branches touch the ground! The...

Happy Valentine’s Day

Written on February 11, 2018.

What do you associate with Valentine’s Day? Hearts and flowers? A box of chocolates? Valentine’s Day cards? Birds? In the fifth century A.D., Pope Galesius established February 14 as the Feast of Saint Valentine...

Garden Memories

Written on July 14, 2017.

A garden can be much more than a beautiful part of one’s home. It can also be a connection to people and the past.A garden can be much more than a beautiful part of one’s home. It can also be a connection to people and the...

You only need farmers when you’re hungry!

Written on June 6, 2017.

“Well, I suppose we don’t need farmers much. Just three times a day.” That’s a comment I’ve heard many times from Orion Samuelson – the voice of agriculture in America since 1960 when he...

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