CCFB News» June 2024

Spend summer days cooling off at Illinois largest waterpark!!

Get your camera and capture moments by showcasing your best photos depicting theme of Agriculture in the Spring. Send in your photos – selfies, pictures of others, landscape, etc.

I’ve always loved asking questions. Who, what, where, when, why, and how are my favorite ways to start a conversation.

Provided over 25 pounds of pollinator seed to Cook County Farm Bureau members wishing to expand their pollinator habitat. A second seed sale is planned for July.

For the past two years, Midwest Horse Fair has marked the beginning of our rodeo season. Just over three years ago, this wild ball of energy decorated with a thick mane and kinky tail entered our lives one Thursday evening. Our veterinarian called him “old fashion.” I prefer to call him “thick.”

Congratulations to the 2024 Cook County Farm Bureau Foundation 2024 Bookmark Contest winners. This year’s theme was “Year of the Farmer,” honoring Illinois Farm-Families Coalition’s naming 2023 the Year of the Farmer.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency Outreach Office and Illinois FSA Office, in cooperation with University of Illinois Extension, announces an opportunity for urban farmers and producers, beginning farmers, historically underserved producers, and food entrepreneurs in Chicago, Illinois to apply for an IAM-Chi/Cook County grant.

Ag for Every Classroom
Free resources use agriculture to teach core subjects

Please join us on Friday, July 19th and support the CCFB Foundation with an evening of dining, drinks, fellowship, and fun!

Perfect Tyme Cocktail
Nina Koziol, Garden Writer & Hort Educator-Beauty and the Feast

AM radio helped shape the person I now call “Me”.

As a kid, I had this AM/FM radio in a brown, leather-ish carrying case, powered by a 9-volt battery. Truthfully, it was the Farmer’s radio but we, the kids, borrowed it from Dad 100% of the time. As the oldest kid (and a selfish bully), I had the self-appointed responsibility of selecting the proper radio station for quality sibling listening.