Programs & Events

Growing Communities: Meet the 2026 Community Garden Grant Recipients, Cook County Farm Bureau.

Thank you to all those that participated in the 2025 Photo Contest!!

Click next for the 2025 Contest Results & Link to photo slide show!

Zoom Book Club - Sign up to join us in our bi-weekly discussion of our book choice this winter.

Discover current and past local food and farming programs and webinars.

Four Season Gardening & Horticulture Webinars from The University of Illinois Extension has close to 200 webinars … 15 minutes to 2 hours, just a click away, available on YouTube.

Farm Crawl Bingo ended on 9.13.2025 - feel free to continue to play along on your own and download our bingo card.

Discover Cook County Farm Bureau Member Ag businesses, support local agriculture, and experience fresh. Crawl to see farms, animals, crops, greenhouse production, purchase fresh vegetables, herbs, fruit, corn, honey, jam, seed and feed, flowers, perrennials, trees, fall planters and...Bourbon!

Exclusive offers and programs available only to members.

Several years ago, the Cook County Farm Bureau® developed a soil testing program to fill a need of area gardeners and homeowners. We were frequently receiving phone calls from these individuals asking for "places" that conduct soil tests. After struggling to answer this question, we decided that this was an area that we needed to fill as an organization.

Speakers Bureau members share their experiences in modern agriculture, including commodity production, livestock, vegetable production, horticulture, and food production.

With support from IFB and Growmark, we’re offering discounted pollinator seed sales. Come by the Cook County Farm Bureau or submit your online order by April 20 to order pollinator seed ($20/lb. for CFB members, $30/lb. for non-members).

April 20-24, 2026
To show our appreciation and gratitude, members can enter for a chance to win a free membership and a daily gift full of fun for you!
Fun programming for all to participte during the week.

The Cook County Farm Bureau Foundation will be hosting a "Raffle for Ag Education" through the purchase of raffle tickets in early 2023. We will post more information in the next couple of weeks and we hope that you will support our Foundation so that we can continue to spread the word about the importance of agriculture!