Our Partners and Donors

The Land Connection is grateful to our many partners and donors. Together we are making the world a cleaner, safer, and more delicious place. Thank you!

The Land Connection partners with these and other organizations and institutions:

Farmer Training

  • The Angelic Organics Learning Center
  • The University of Illinois Extension Small Farms
  • The Land Stewardship Project
  • Illinois Stewardship Alliance
  • Heartland Local Food Network
  • Western Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Society
  • Good Earth Food Alliance
  • Stewards of the Land

Farmland Preservation

  • The Conservation Foundation
  • Openlands

Organic Farming

  • Midwest Organic Services Association

Consumer Education

  • Slow Food Chicago
  • FoodRoutes/ Buy Fresh Buy Local
  • The Evanston Food Policy Council
  • Seven Generations Ahead
  • Green City Market

Funders and Donors
The Land Connection has received generous grants from the following foundations, organizations, and agencies, and from hundreds of individual donors.

  • The Chicago Community Trust
  • FarmAid
  • Heifer International
  • Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
  • Illinois Department of Agriculture
  • The Liberty Prairie Foundation
  • The Lumpkin Family Foundation
  • North Pond Restaurant
  • Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
  • North Central Risk Management Education Center