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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Volunteer Opportunities:</strong></span>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">V: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="http://vols.pt/BEZVW1"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Garden Walk</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">V: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="http://vols.pt/T4ptdi"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Horticulture Hotline</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Counting Education:</strong></span>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CE: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12461"><span style="color: #4276aa;">ISAM Illinois Invasive Species Symposium</span></a> – May 28, 9:30 am-4 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CE: 25 Years in the Life of a Plant Collector and Her Garden – May 30, 2 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CE: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.extension.illinois.edu_registration_-3FRegistrationID-3D12285&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=i1Ddhi1zgu91yhNvYr7PZnS0DGZDm1waoT8k3PsVA-4&m=SM0UZvWQrPe3u16xC3sEzrTar0A8qbGdPLpCVWM7Q94&s=OGbCgbS8hTMnoeOve8tqUGbayQS3AwP1itkBwUer7xY&e="><span style="color: #4276aa;">Pollination Celebration</span></a> – Saturday, June 6 8:45 am-4 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CE: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12475"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Plant a Pollinator Pocket!</span></a> – Monday, June 15, 7 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CE: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12519"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Meet and Greet Falconers and Their Birds</span></a> – Monday, June 15, 6:30 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CE: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12529"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Sustainable Vegetable Farm Tour</span></a> – Tuesday, June 23, 9 am-12 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CE: <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12323"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Cooking with Herbs</span></a> – Tuesday, June 30, 6:30 pm</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Miscellaneous:</strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a style="color: #4276aa;" href="http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Home, Yard & Garden Pest Newsletter</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ecimgcalendar%40gmail.com&ctz=America/Chicago"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Master Gardener Calendar</span></a></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><em>V: Garden Walk</em></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Saturday, June 20</strong>, is this year’s date for our celebrated Garden Walk - and it is fast approaching. We need your help to make our biggest event of the year a success.</p>
<p>This year, we are using “Volunteer Spot” so that you can sign-up online. Just <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="http://vols.pt/BEZVW1"><span style="color: #4276aa;">click here</span></a>.</p>
<p>Questions? Email Garden Walk 2015 Volunteer Co-Chairs Christie Roszkowski and Carolyn Pribble at <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="mailto:christierosz02@gmail.com"><span style="color: #4276aa;">christierosz02@gmail.com</span></a> or call 217.721.6296 (Christie) or 217.688.2257 (Carolyn).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><em>V: Horticulture Hotline</em></strong></span></p>
<p>The Horticulture Hotline is open and calls are steadily coming in! We need your help! The Horticulture Hotline is one of the best ways to get involved, get immersed, and LEARN. Two Master Gardeners can sign up for each shift, so bring a buddy!</p>
<p><a style="color: #4276aa;" href="http://vols.pt/T4ptdi"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Click here</span></a> to sign up on our Volunteer Spot calendar.</p>
<p>Questions? Email me, Ava Heap, at <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="mailto:carmien2@illinois.edu"><span style="color: #4276aa;">carmien2@illinois.edu</span></a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><table style="border: none; width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0; line-height: 12px; width: 100%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background: #000000; font-size: 1px; padding: 0; line-height: 1px; height: 1px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="border: none; width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0; line-height: 12px; width: 100%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>ISAM Illinois Invasive Species Symposium</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Thursday, May 28 at 9:30 am to 4 pm</em></strong></span></p>
<p>The Illinois Invasive Species Symposium is a one-day, all-taxa symposium that features talks on current and emerging issues surrounding invasive plants, diseases, insects, and animals in Illinois. The event will feature talks about invasive species ranging from snake fungal disease and white-nose syndrome in bats to aquatic invasive plants. Follow the link to view the <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__web.extension.illinois.edu_cfiv_downloads_58289.pdf&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=i1Ddhi1zgu91yhNvYr7PZnS0DGZDm1waoT8k3PsVA-4&m=SM0UZvWQrPe3u16xC3sEzrTar0A8qbGdPLpCVWM7Q94&s=hfpft2nDWSk0hsgcAzFW0sbSwuGyeJJ6ppzp_FqzSTo&e="><span style="color: #4276aa;">Agenda</span></a>. Featured as the culmination of the 2015 Illinois Invasive Species Awareness Month, the event also includes the ceremony for this year’s Invasive Species Awareness Month Awards. </p>
<p>Onsite program registration is now FULL but good news we are now offering the symposium as a LIVE webinar thanks to University of Illinois Extension and Illinois Natural History Survey, a division of the Prairie Research Institute at University of Illinois.</p>
<p><a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.extension.illinois.edu_registration_-3FRegistrationID-3D12461&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=i1Ddhi1zgu91yhNvYr7PZnS0DGZDm1waoT8k3PsVA-4&m=SM0UZvWQrPe3u16xC3sEzrTar0A8qbGdPLpCVWM7Q94&s=RPqQpH9zw7TjFGTl8EeBAU_tK1paRnOy8EoUoFqdvFM&e="><span style="color: #4276aa;">Register</span></a> now for the live webinar. No charge and open to the public.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>25 Years in the Life of a Plant Collector and Her Garden</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Saturday, May 30, 2 pm</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Join Illinois Prairie Hosta Soc</span>iety for their meeting with gardener Kate Hunter presenting “25 Years in the Life of a Plant Collector and Her Garden.” This program is free.</p>
<p>Contact Diann Thoma for meeting location and more information, <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="mailto:postquicken@yahoo.com"><span style="color: #4276aa;">postquicken@yahoo.com</span></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Pollination Celebration and MN Carolyn Mason Memorial </em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Rock Springs Conservation Area </em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Saturday, June 6, 8:45 to 4pm</em></strong></span></p>
<p>Discover the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. This day-long workshop will focus on hummingbirds, bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Also learn about landscaping and native plants that attract these pollinators. You will have a hands-on opportunity to create a Mason Bee house to help attract bees to your garden or a pollination pot to attract hummingbirds, bees and butterflies.</p>
<p>The program costs $25 which includes the cost of hands-on activities. Follow the this link to the <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.extension.illinois.edu_registration_-3FRegistrationID-3D12285&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=i1Ddhi1zgu91yhNvYr7PZnS0DGZDm1waoT8k3PsVA-4&m=SM0UZvWQrPe3u16xC3sEzrTar0A8qbGdPLpCVWM7Q94&s=OGbCgbS8hTMnoeOve8tqUGbayQS3AwP1itkBwUer7xY&e="><span style="color: #4276aa;">Registration</span></a>. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Plant a Pollinator Pocket!</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Monday, June 15, 7 pm</em></strong></span></p>
<p>The Ford-Iroquois Master Gardeners will be hosting Horticulture Educator Sandy Mason for their summer community education series. Do your part to save the pollinators - the bees, butterflies, moths, and other insects critical to our food supply and human survival. Plant a "pocket" of flowers that attract and nurture pollinators in your own yard.<a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://illinois.edu/cms/4321/summerseriesmonarch_2015.pdf"><br style="color: #4276aa;" /> </a></p>
<p>The first of the summer series will be held at <strong>Moyer District Library</strong><strong>, 618 S. Sangamon Ave.<br /> Gibson City, on Monday, June 15 - 7:00 pm</strong>.</p>
<p>This program is free and open to the public! <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12475"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Click here</span></a> to register.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Meet and Greet Falconers and Their Birds</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Monday, June 15, 6:30pm</em></strong></span></p>
<p>Master falconer Scott Hartman and general falconer Randy Tague will present a program on falconry and raptors at <strong>6:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the Champaign County Extension Auditorium, 801 North Country Fair Drive.</strong> <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12519"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Click here</span></a> to register.</p>
<p>The event, sponsored by East Central Illinois Master Naturalists, is open free to the public. Hartman and Tague will give a brief history of falconry and discuss the path to becoming a master falconer, as well as what sets hawks apart from other birds. They will bring their birds, which include a redtail hawk, a goshawk, a Harris hawk, and a great horned owl, for a "meet and greet" after the program. Both falconers are from the Decatur area.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Sustainable Vegetable Farm Tour</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Tuesday, June 23, 9 am</em></strong></span></p>
<p>Join us at Gray Farms in Watseka on Tuesday, June 23 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon and learn about sustainable agricultural practices that have made Gray Farms successful! The tour is FREE!</p>
<p><strong>Covered on the Tour:</strong></p>
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<li>Water Lines</li>
<li>Packing shed</li>
<li>Four High Tunnels</li>
<li>20 acres of planting that include vegetables and cover crops, and small vegetable farm equipment and other topics</li>
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<p><strong>Gray Farms is located at:</strong></p>
<p>2177 N 1930 E Rd.<br /> Watseka, IL 60970</p>
<p><a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12529"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Click here</span></a> to register.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Cooking with Herbs</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Tuesday, June 30, 6:30 pm</em></strong></span></p>
<p>Summer is the season to garden and share the produce with friends and family. Learn how to incorporate varieties of herbs in your daily dishes and specialty dishes that will quickly become fan favorites. Champaign County Master Gardeners welcome Susan Biggs-Warner of the Vermilion County Conservation District as she presents <strong><em>Cooking with Herbs</em> on Tuesday, June 30 at 6:30 pm</strong>.</p>
<p>This will be a hands-one, mouth-watering presentation as samples will be available of herb delights. Recipes of each dish will be distributed.</p>
<p>This program is free and open to the public, but prior registration is required. <a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=12323"><span style="color: #4276aa;">Click here</span></a> to register.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><table style="border: none; width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0; line-height: 12px; width: 100%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background: #000000; font-size: 1px; padding: 0; line-height: 1px; height: 1px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="border: none; width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0; line-height: 12px; width: 100%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Home, Yard & Garden Newsletter</em></strong></span></p>
<p>Issue no. 5 of the Home, Yard & Garden Newsletter is now available on the Web. Point your browser to:</p>
<p><a style="color: #4276aa;" href="http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu"><span style="color: #4276aa;">http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu</span></a></p>
<p>IN THIS ISSUE:</p>
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<li>Modified Growing Degree Days (Base 50°F, March 1 through May 21)</li>
<li>Illinois Invasive Plant Phenology Report for May 18, 2015</li>
<li>Rhizoctonia on Turfgrass</li>
<li>Witches'-broom of Hackberry</li>
<li>Periodical Cicada</li>
<li>May Beetles</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Master Gardener Calendar</em></strong></span></p>
<p>To see a lot more event related to gardener, be sure to visit the Unit 13 Master Gardener calendar. This calendar highlights regular community garden workdays, monthly programs, webinars, and much more!</p>
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<p><em>Program Coordinator, Horticulture</em></p>
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