This land seeker highlight shares details of flower farmer, Carrie Khoury, looking to expand her business in Lombard, Illinois.

This event was part of the ongoing Farmland Stewards Learning Group, an informal and practical community of farmland-owning organizations.

Greening Acres is located in beautiful Pope County, which contains one-third of the Shawnee National Forest.Pamela Tanner is searching for farmers interested in building a partnership through purchasing or leasing part of her farm, Greening Acres (Pope County). The...

 Christina Foster (left) and Illinois FarmLink team member, Jeanne (right), discuss the process of converting conventional row crop farmland to pasture at Christina's farm in Sugar Grove.Agriculture is a climate problem – and a climate solution. This is the belief of...

We’re happy to report that The Land Connection’s Illinois FarmLink program helped make a farmland connection story happen in Kane County. In October 2023, Mark Harbecke of the town of Sycamore in DeKalb County signed a five-year lease agreement with the Kanchwala...

See photos and learn more about our 2023 Common Ground event.

In addition to my role as the Navigator for the southern region of Illinois FarmLink, I also own and operate a vegetable farm in Carbondale – BeetRoot Farm. Having just gone through my own land access journey, I'm able to bring the land access lessons I’ve learned to...

In November, the Illinois FarmLink team presented our Land Access 101 webinar – a two-hour overview that introduces the basics of finding and securing a good land arrangement. That webinar is now available as a YouTube video.

Lauren Virnoche started Ecotone Herbs in 2019 with six seasons of farming under her belt. Through the cultivation of plants, she hopes to support resilient communities – of the wild, the cultivated, and the human.

I had the pleasure of attending the Southern Illinois Local Food Tour and Roundtable event in late September both as a local vegetable farmer and a navigator for Illinois FarmLink. At Illinois FarmLink we believe that efforts to improve our food and farming system must include land access, and we want to make sure that perspective is shared with local legislators.