Our Mission

Dream - "The Power to Imagine"

We have a special needs granddaughter we have raised since she was born. We realized early on that no one was going to help us raise her or support her and we need to plan for her care after we are gone.

We live west of the Fox River Valley, just west of Sugar Grove in rural Big Rock. We are 12 minutes from Aurora and 30 minutes from Naperville.

We are making our DREAM come true by working with the local officials to develop our Farm into a PUD (Planned Unit Development). The farmstead is 13 acres and consists of five buildings which will become a community center. When the Development Plan was put together we were told to think 30 years out and put everything on the plan we wanted. The final plan has additions to all of the existing buildings plus two additional new buildings.

The farmstead buildings were made from trees cleared from the surrounding land in the 1940's in order to grow crops. The existing buildings were made from the timber harvested at that time and all new buildings and additions will maintain the rural farm architecture in order to blend in with the existing structures.

Farmstead Plan: Eight years ago we remodeled the corncrib (farm structure to store grain) into our office. Later we remodeled the machine shed (farm structure to store farm equipment) into a pavilion with kitchen, restroom, and inside seating. The pavilion over looks a half-acre pond. The pond was re-dug, stocked with fish, and a beach was added. In 2014 AquaScape constructed the waterfall and wetland. This serves as a learning area for the special needs students from local schools.

We have had unanimous support from the community, planning commission, zoning board, county board, and village board.

In 2008 we founded Farm Friends, nfp (not-for profit) organization to develop and maintain the Farm. We are working to make our DREAM for our little girl and for others with disabilities a reality. Please feel free to contact us.

Never give up dreaming. My Great Aunt started the first nursing home in Illinois, license no. 1. She out lived three husbands to the age of 96 years. She always had something to live for (her Dream). The day she lost that something to live for she left us. This is what the world is made of, "DREAMS!"