2014 Duveneck Forum - Bridges of Bread: Building an Equitable, Connected Food Community

Los Altos Hills, CA – Hidden Villa invites you to join them on Saturday, April 12 from 2 – 4pm, for a panel discussion about real solutions for re-localizing agriculture and making healthier food available to all. This conversation is free to the public (though pre-registration is requested) and is ideal for all people interested in food: who grows it, who gets it - and what we can do to create healthier, more equitable food systems. 

Forum panelists are Cathrine Sneed, Director of The Garden Project, who works with at-risk youth through community gardening programs; Christopher Gardner, Professor of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center; Robin Galas,  Assistant Director of The Family Engagement Institute, a Foothill College program that teaches healthy cooking and; and Jason McKenney, Agriculture Manager at Hidden Villa Farm. The conversation will be moderated by Jessica Prentice, author of Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection. Detailed information on each panelist and the moderator may be found at the Forum webpage: www.hiddenvilla.org/programs/public-programs/duveneck-forum

Hidden Villa encourages questions be brought by the audience, in addition to the prepared discussion points for the panelists, which include:Michael Pollan’s latest book Cooked discusses the paradox that as the popularity of cooking shows and celebrity chefs skyrocket, there is a dramatic decline in cooking at home. How do you get people to care about food, farming, and cooking?”

Bridges of Bread is Hidden Villa’s 2014 installment of The Duveneck Forum, which serves as a platform for bringing people together and focusing on issues of justice.  Just as our founders Josephine and Frank Duveneck opened their home at Hidden Villa as a place for discussion and social reform, Hidden Villa builds upon that legacy by facilitating conservations and reflections about critical issues and the impact each one of us can make in our homes, schools, workplaces and community as we come together.  Last year, the Duveneck Forum focused on bringing together Bay Area youth for an interfaith forum to promote cross cultural understanding and collaboration.  This year we are focusing on changing our relationship with and access to food.  The discussion will take place on Saturday, April 12 from 2 – 4pm, at Hidden Villa.

Hidden Villa is an educational nonprofit in Los Altos Hills that uses its organic farm, wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn about the environment and social justice. With a mission “to inspire a just and sustainable future,” Hidden Villa was founded in 1924 by Frank and Josephine Duveneck and was later incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Stretching over 1600 acres, the Duvenecks generated a rich legacy of advocacy that included housing Japanese families that had returned from encampments, providing meeting spaces for Cesar Chavez and the American Farm Worker Movement, hosting Jewish Holocaust survivors, and starting the first residential multi-racial summer camp in the nation.

For further information and to register, please visit the Forum webpage at: www.hiddenvilla.org/programs/public-programs/duveneck-forum  or contact Public Programs at 650-949-6326.