Conservation Stories

2025 Conservation@Home Anniversary print

Conservation@Home: Celebrating 20 Years

Over the past two decades, our Conservation@Home Program Director Jim Kleinwachter has been able to see the program born out of his desire to encourage people’s environmentally-minded efforts grow to

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Conservation@Home sign

Don & Espie Nelson

Don Nelson (pictured) and his wife Espie are long-time members of The Conservation Foundation and our Lower DuPage River Watershed Coalition, and have been a certified Conservation@Home property for more

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Field Notes: Climate Change

As I turned up the driveway to the farm two Sundays ago, I stared down the face of climate change in the form of several fields flooded out, the product

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For the Love of Land

We are beyond thrilled to announce a trio of exciting land protection projects that have come to fruition in the last couple of months, preserving 330 acres across Kane, Kendall

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It All Comes Back To The Land

We’ve had the great honor and pleasure these past few months of sharing some huge conservation “wins” of the past year or so. If you’ve donated or supported us in

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King John of McDonald Farm

“The Farm – it feels like a new kingdom,” says John Wagner of Wheaton.  John is a builder of kingdoms – he actually built Disney’s Magic Kingdom on Minecraft –

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Marvel Davis

Marvel Davis

Marvel Davis has lived in the Big Rock area her entire life.  Her late husband, Harley, lived in Big Rock his entire life.  One of Harley’s ancestors, John Pierce, settled the family’s

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Eastern bluebird on box picture

McDonald Farm Bluebird Report 2024

2024 Bluebird Nesting Box Wrap-up A Different Version of a Bird’s-eye View   By Volunteer Mackenzie Kaehler   The start of the 2024 McDonald Farm bluebird nesting season started in

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