For this year’s annual Autumnal Festival, held September 14-15 at the Horticulture Center in north Normal, event organizers are leaning into the University’s intrinsic beauty with the theme “Awestruck: The Wonder of Nature,” designed to inspire visitors with marvels of the natural world through captivating botanical, artistic, and natural exhibits.
Bloomington-Normal, ranked No. 3 on College Values Online’s list of “Best Small College Towns America,” is heating up with summer events and activities.
From the darkest depths of death and despair, Dr. Theoneste “Theo” Nzaramyimana, M.S. ’17, discovered life in a garden.
April is Earth Month, and Illinois State University’s campus is blossoming with opportunities to celebrate nature. The seeds for one such initiative were planted by senior environmental systems science and sustainability (ESSS) major Haley Cepek.
A generous gift from Betty Norris Fairchild’s estate—facilitated by Fairchild’s daughter Barbara—has endowed the Children’s Discovery Garden and created a scholarship for agriculture students.
Visitors to the 18th annual Autumnal Festival at Illinois State University’s Horticulture Center, September 9-10, will experience what it was like in Illinois, before 1800, to stand amid a towering prairie.
The free, outdoor community performance event is centered around listening to Native Americans as a reconciliatory act of land acknowledgement.
In its fourth year, the annual Horticulture Center Plant Sale is an opportunity for local gardeners to fill their plots and pots with organically grown plants while supporting Illinois State’s Horticulture Center.
The Illinois State University Horticulture Center will hold the 2023 annual plant sale. Online ordering will run from May 7-20.
Last spring, a fundraising campaign during Birds Give Back funded a new internship at Illinois State University Horticulture Center.
