Just one year of the IL-EATS program has had a transformative impact on the Illinois food system. Funded by the USDA’s Local Food Purchase Assistance, IL-EATS buys food from Illinois farmers at fair market value and distributes their foods at no cost to communities in need. Farmers are...
Ed Dubrick of DuChick Ranch began raising chickens in 2020. Through IL-EATS, he grew his business and started seeing farming in a whole new light.
When Marty and his wife launched Kakadoodle Farm five years ago, they knew profit and scale wouldn’t come easily. But through IL-EATS, their egg business found the market it needed to grow and thrive.
Jeffrey and Lauren Brokish took on Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery, one of the few goat cheese farms in a region with almost no dairies. Their first year brought big questions — but IL-EATS helped them invest in their future.