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Adams County Wellness
The Adams County Wellness Program provides health and wellness programs to youth and adults on a variety of topics.
Ag Awareness
The Ag Awareness Program helps people of all ages better understand the importance of agriculture and natural resources to our area. The program reaches youth by providing hands-on, fun, learning activities in and outside the classroom.
Alliance for Building Community
Alliance for Building Community (ABC) is a community partnership of Individuals and groups working to improve the quality of life for all residents of Adams County.
Brown County Action
Brown County Action is people working together to make Brown County an even better place to live and work. Are you involved in an Action team?
Brown County Wellness
The Brown County Wellness Program provides health and wellness programs to youth and adults on a variety of topics.
Caring for our Environment
University of Illinois Extension is here to help individuals and communities put science and research to work. We provide the information and tools citizens need to make sound decisions about our environment.
Community Garden
The Quincy Community Gardens are about growing - growing flowers, growing vegetables and fruits, and growing a community of people who can share their love of gardening while taking good care of our small part of the earth. Fun and learning is the emphasis and successful organic gardening is the objective.
Family Nutrition Program
The Family Nutrition Program (Food Stamp Nutrition Education) teaches and promotes safe and healthy eating for families on a budget.
Leadership
Interested in improving your leadership skills?
Local Government Education
The men and women who serve in local office are almost always volunteers, sometimes retired but often working full-time. Keeping on top of issues and trends is difficult, and University of Illinois Extension has been helping local elected officials with their continuing education for many years.
Locally Grown
Locally Grown is an effort to assist producers in west central Illinois and the surrounding area to market locally grown products by providing information to consumers on the availability, nutritional aspects, economic and environmental impacts of buying local.
Locally Grown targets all levels of the local food system network by creating learning opportunities and increasing availability of locally grown products for consumers. The project creates awareness and understanding between producers and consumers resulting in a more sustainable local food system.
Master Gardeners
The Adams/Brown Master Gardeners have completed horticulture training and provide volunteer service back to their community.
Pests
The U of I has found a population of marestail in the area that is resistant to glyphosate (roundup).
Adams/Brown Unit