Wheaton Mayor Phil Suess waits with Washington Elementary School fourth graders as teacher Krista Lipnisky fills pans of potting soil for her students to plant cherry tomatoes at the Wheaton school on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The plantings are part of the DuPage County Farm Bureau’s Grow Your Own Food project, which plans to include 4,000 fourth graders throughout DuPage County this spring. (Sandy Bressner)