Patch 22 open for hay and pony rides, pumpkin sales, petting farm
In autumn at Patch 22 in Wadsworth, families can take hay and pony rides, feed farm animals and search for the perfect pumpkin. Owners and brothers Dan and Sean Kelly...
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Outdoors column: ‘Tis the season of yellow
Everywhere I roam, it's a sea of yellow. My backyard is glowing with black-eyed Susans, and several kinds of goldenrod. Butler Lake in Libertyville is edged with sneezeweed, while the...
North Shore Distillery open for fall cocktail flights, tours
Derek and Sonja Kassebaum are welcoming their patrons back into their spirited business with flight nights and new autumn drinks. The husband/wife team opened North Shore Distillery in 2004, where...
Mundelein sisters create made-to-order masks, donate profits
A new business owner open for only a few months wouldn't even dream of breaking even, let alone making a profit in such a short amount of time. But the...
Autumn is a great time to plant native trees and shrubs, experts say
Jill Selinger has watched caterpillars, destined to become spicebush swallowtail butterflies, munch on the leaves of a spicebush, a native shrub she planted in her Grayslake yard. Like many local...
Navy museum brings Lego building event, contest online
Its inaugural Lego brick building event was so popular last year that the National Museum of the American Sailor at the Naval Station Great Lakes is bringing it back. This...
Seeds of change: Lake County forest preserve begins experimental restoration
With crickets singing in the background on a warm September morning, Pati Vitt walked through a bumpy agricultural field teeming with weeds, old soybean plants, along with an occasional grasshopper...
Outdoors column: Cedar Lake home to sunken treasures
Botanist Linda Curtis emailed me with good news. "We saw flower buds on the water marigolds that had been swept to the Lehmann Park shore by the derecho last week,"...
Lambs Farm reopens gates for visitors with online reservations
A visitor to Lambs Farm feeds one of the animals that can be visited through October. Stella, Mezzo, Snoopy and the rest of the farmyard gang are waiting for a...
Lake County libraries gradually reopen, restore services: ‘We needed to ensure we could do it safely’
Holding a duffel bag full of books and DVDs on a warm August day, Christina Voigts waited in the checkout line at Fremont Public Library in Mundelein. It was the...