The Piatt County SWCD and Foundation’s April board meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 21st at 8:00am. The meeting will be held in the Monticello USDA building conference room (1209 Bear Lane, Monticello, IL 61856).
Category: <span>Upcoming Events</span>
PCSWCD is accepting applications until April 1st for two Butch Fisher Memorial Scholarship awards this year!
Submit your application in person at the Monticello UDSA office, or through our new online form! Submission and eligibility details can be found on our website under the PCSWCD Foundation tab.
The Piatt County SWCD and Foundation’s March board meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 5th at 8:00am. The meeting will be held in the Monticello USDA building conference room (1209 Bear Lane, Monticello, IL 61856).
The Piatt County Soil & Water Conservation District Foundation is co-sponsoring a presentation by John Deere historian and storyteller Brian ‘Fox’ Ellis at Allerton Public Library on Thursday, February 26th at 4pm! Join us as Ellis portrays John Deere himself, covering 100 years of agricultural history and the future of farming.
The Land Conservation Foundation has announced details for their eighth annual Mudpuppy Festival!
The 2026 festival will be held on Sunday, February 1st from 1:00 – 4:00pm at the Monarch Events Center (212 S Independence St, Monticello)
Help celebrate the unique and exciting mudpuppy, a rare aquatic salamander known to occur in the Sangamon River – along with other special creatures! If you would like to donate to LCF or sponsor this event, mail your donation to LCF at (508 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801) or visit their website: https://www.landconservationfoundation.org/
For folks who have pre-ordered trees from our John Beckhart Memorial Tree Sale: Due to the government shutdown, our USDA office building remains inaccessible and we have changed the location for tree pick up scheduled for this Friday, October 10th from 8:00am – 4:30pm.
The new tree pick up location is 1115 N State Street, Monticello, IL 61856 on the north side of the buildings. The date and time (10/10, 8:00-4:30) will remain the same. Below is a map showing the new pick up location.
If you have any questions, please email us at piattswcd@gmail.com. Thank you!
Our last Electronics Recycling event of the year is Wednesday, July 30th at Forest Preserve Park in Monticello!
Show up early to guarantee disposal! The event will run from 9am – 11:30am or until the truck is full.
Event Rules:
-Must be a Piatt County resident/landowner
-Free! for most items. $25 charge required for large console or projection T.V.s
-No White Goods: refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, dishwashers, hot water heaters, etc.
-No Batteries
-Limit 10 items per vehicle
-Limit 3 T.V.s or computer monitors per vehicle
Next Electronics Recycling Event: January 2026
Support local wildlife by planting native perennial plants in your garden and landscaping this spring! PCSWCD’s annual Plant for Pollinators sale is this Wednesday through Friday (5/7 – 5/9) from 8am to 6pm at the Monticello USDA office!
We have 13 species available: big bluestem, butterfly milkweed, bee balm, purple coneflower, blue and white wild indigo, rattlesnake master, shrubby St. John’s wort, common milkweed, cardinal flower, prairie coreopsis, compass plant, and slender mountain mint.
Click here to order online or stop by this week to browse! Cash, check, and card accepted.
