As Illinois schools return to normal, that is opening the door for outside program coordinators to return to classrooms for programs that have been on pause for nearly two years.

Among those returning to classrooms in DeWitt County is Lindsey Burden, the 4-H Youth Development Program Coordinator at the University of Illinois Extension. She explains she has been doing a food preparation program with high schoolers in DeWitt County.

Prior to COVID, the U of I Extension was starting to gain real momentum in its after-school programming in Farmer City. Burden is hoping they can pick up right where they left off as they start to get back to some of those activities.

Burden also is coordinating with the Farmer City Library for programs they offered during COVID like growing a salsa garden among others. She is looking forward to those getting going again this spring. 

You can learn more about these programs and many more by visiting the Extension website, extension.illinois.edu/dmp.