May 2010 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the May Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
April 2010 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the April Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
March 2010 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the March Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
February 2010 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the February Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
January 2010 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the January Update.
Blackhawk Area Council Troop 927 Provides Community Service at Vehe Farm
December 2009 - On a beautiful late November Saturday morning, participants from Barrington’s Troop 927 of the Blackhawk Area Council Danny Guarnieri, Joey Moote, Arun Jayaraman, Brian Guarnieri and Girl Scout Grace Moote with adult leadership support from Dan & Anne Guarnieri, Scott Moote, and Bob and Sue Lehde spent the morning at Vehe Farm performing a community service project. Read the entire Chicago Tribune article.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
December 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the December Update.
Second graders spend time outside studying insects at Vehe Farm
November 2009 - Thanks to a generous two-year grant from the District 220 Educational Foundation to the Barrington elementary school science program, all second grade classes, over 600 students, took part in Leave No Child Inside field trips. Read the entire Chicago Tribune article.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
November 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the November Update.
Huron Nation-Indian Princess Community Service event at Vehe Farm
On Sunday, November 8, a beautiful fall afternoon, Huron Nation Indian Princesses and their fathers took part in a community service project at Vehe Farm. The girls learned about why prairies are important, who makes prairies their home, and how to help nature at their own home. Read the entire Chicago Tribune article.
Animal Footprint Stands and Bluebird Houses are Eagle Scout Project at Vehe Farm
Volunteers and fellow Scouts from Boy Scout Troop 964 helped Greg Frech come closer to achieveing his Eagle Award by making and installing educational animal footprint stands, the dispensers for the educational animal brochures, and bluebird houses for historic Vehe Farm. Read the entire Chicago Tribune article.
Getting Kids Outside a Success
On October 20, partnering with the Lake Zurich YMCA, the LNCI Consortium, and the Vehe Farm Foundation, over thirty children were able to take part in prairie seed collecting at Vehe Farm as part of the Ela Township Youth Coalition’s goal to provide opportunities for children to become involved in various after school activities. Read the entire Chicago Tribune article.
New IDNR Lending Trunks Available
Two new educational trunks are available for loan from The Vehe Farm Foundation. Learn More.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
October 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the October Update.
1920's Bobsled Restored at Vehe Farm
Recently a group of volunteers from Deer Park and Barrington helped Jonathan Coath, a member of Boy Scout Troop 927, as he completed the final steps of his Eagle Scout project—the restoration of a 1920’s bobsled donated to Deer Park by the Willoway Farm. Read the full Chicago Tribune article.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
September 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the September Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
August 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the August Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
July 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the July Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
June 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the June Update.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
May 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the May Update.
Vehe Farm Prairie Burn
April 2009 - A burn is a very important part of having a healthy prairie. In early April a prairie burn was conducted at the Vehe Farm. See the slideshow and Learn More
Junior Duck Stamp Contest
April 2009 - Area children participated in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. The program encourages conservation through arts. Check out the Illinois winners. Read More
Educators Welcomed
March 2009 - Do you enjoy spending time with children? Like to spend your time outside with nature? Willing to learn about the Vehe Farm and its history? The Vehe Farm Foundation is looking for a few good parents, grandparents, retired teachers, and others. Read more.
Leave No Child Inside: Owls for Children
March 2009 - Over eighty children and parents came to Vehe Farm barn to see a rescued screech owl and great horned owl. Dawn Keller from Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation discussed how the birds came to her and how she was able to save the two owls. The children were scientists for a day, learning where owls live, how much they weigh, and what they eat. Read more.
Foundation Update to the Village of Deer Park
February 2009 - The Vehe Farm Foundation provides monthly updates at each village board meeting. Read the February Update.
Bird Field Trip at Vehe Farm
November 12 2008 - St. Anne's Brownie Troop 895 attended Vehe Farm to learn about birds. The Vehe Farm Foundation led a bird walk by the wetlands where many Canadian geese were seen feeding, preening, and socializing. A special treat was when a Red-Tailed Hawk flew over the wetlands attempting to catch a woodpecker and caused the geese to take flight. Over 50 geese flew overhead to the delight of the girls. Nests were also viewed in the bare trees when walking the prairie paths along with grackles and sparrows flying overhead. Inside activities included using the IDNR educational bird trunk, touching bird feathers, eggs, owl pellet, listening to bird calls, and viewing bird nests collected by the Foundation. The field trip ended with a nature based craft activity for the girls to remember their visit to Vehe Farm. Schedule your Scout outing by calling (847) 331-0967 or by email at info@vehefarmfoundation.org.
Local Leave No Child Inside Movement Receives National Recognition
November 2008 - The Vehe Farm Foundation is an active participant in the Chicago Wilderness' Leave No Child Inside movement. Recently the Chicago Wilderness' program was recognized as a model for other communities by the National Forum on Children and Nature. Read the announcement.
Brownie Troop Nature Walk
October 2, 2008 - Brownie Troop 809 visited Vehe Farm for a fun-filled nature walk. The girls were able to see many prairie plants beginning to go to seed. Some included the big bluestem, bottle brush grass, rattle snake master, compass plant, cup plant, and the very soft and fluffy milkweed seeds. Along the trail the female praying mantis were looking for mates or preparing to lay their egg sacks. These sacks will hatch about 100-200 praying mantises all at once in the spring. In addition several migrating birds were seen such as cedar waxwings and the yellow warbler. The field trip ended with a craft project for the girls to remember their afternoon at Vehe Farm.
Community Seed Collection
September 27 and October 4 - Community residents and Boy Scouts gathered at the Vehe Farm to collect prairie seeds. The seeds will be planted on the farm property later in the fall in order to continue the prairie restoration with native vegetation at Vehe. This will benefit species such as the wild bergamot, cup plant, rattlesnake master, tall coreopsis, penstemon, prairie sunflower, brown-eyes susans, purple coneflower, assorted grasses, and sedges by providing more habitat for them to naturalize.
New Butterfly Garden Access Path
September 2008 - The Vehe Farm Foundation is pleased to announce that a new path providing easy access to the Betty McLaughlin Memorial Butterfly Garden has been installed.. Read More
