DuPage County Farm Bureau

🎉Congratulations to our 2026 AITC Bookmark Contest winner, Amaya Patel from Sycamore Trails Elementary! This year 470 students participated in the contest. Amaya was presented with a Visa gift card and her class received summer bridge books donated by the DCFB Foundation. We are so excited to distribute her bookmark to local libraries and DCFB programs. 🎉

The DuPage County Farm Bureau extends its sincere thanks to Midwest Trading for its generous donation to the 2026 Grow Your Own Food Program. Through the donation of five pallets of soil — totaling 350 bags — Midwest Trading helped provide students across DuPage County with the essential supplies needed for a meaningful, hands-on agricultural learning experience. We are deeply grateful for your partnership and commitment to helping students grow, learn, and connect with agriculture in such a memorable way!

The DuPage County Farm Bureau extends its heartfelt gratitude to DuPage Foundation for awarding us a generous Community Impact grant in support of the 2026 Grow Your Own Food Program. This meaningful investment in our community helped make it possible for thousands of students across DuPage County to experience hands-on agricultural education and learn the importance of growing their own food. We are incredibly thankful for partners like DuPage Foundation who believe in empowering youth, strengthening communities, and investing in the future of agriculture.

Today we honor the men and women who sacrificed their lives while serving in the U.S. military.

A sincere thank you to DuPage Event Center & Fairgrounds for its continued partnership and support of the 2026 Grow Your Own Food Program. By allowing us to use one of the barns to stage supplies for volunteer pickup, your generosity helped make program distribution possible and organized for our many volunteers. In addition, your contribution of a DuPage County Fair admission ticket and unlimited ride wristband for each participating student gives them the opportunity to return for an exciting tomato plant judging event this July!

Our team had a great time at the Kline Creek Farm "Day at the Farm" event! Over 1,300 students visited our AITC station where they learned about the different types of corn and its many uses. Each student also made a seed germination necklace to take home! 🌽

Happy World Bee Day!

Today we celebrate bees and the important role they play in agriculture and food production.

The DuPage County Farm Bureau extends its sincere appreciation to College of DuPage Horticulture for supporting the 2026 Grow Your Own Food Program. Their students and staff started more than 7,000 tomato seeds and carefully nurtured them into starter plugs for local students to transplant and grow. Thanks to their generosity and dedication, more than 5,200 students throughout DuPage County received hands-on agricultural education experiences.

Thank you to Ball Horticultural for their generous support of the 2026 Grow Your Own Food Program. Your contribution, along with the dedication of your volunteers during delivery week, helped make this program possible for more than 5,200 students across DuPage County!

We spent the day planting the extra tomatoes from the Grow Your Own Food project. Anyone want them? We will have them available at the Farm Bureau office starting tomorrow at 9am. Happy gardening, Kara & Lily

It’s a beautiful day here at the Naper Settlement “Spring into History” event! Be sure to swing by our booth to learn about corn and make a seed germination necklace!