Image - Food and Health
Image - Food and Health

Food and Health from the Ground Up

This event is the latest in our member-led forums’ Art and Science of Well-Being series. 

What's in our food and how it's grown has a profound impact on the health of our communities. Schools and hospitals are an increasingly critical intervention point for food access and long-term food systems shifts. Food and health issues are set against a seemingly paradoxical backdrop: One in eight Californians face hunger because of distribution and incentive problems. At the same time, one in four Californians suffer from diet-related diseases, directly related to social inequality, poverty and food availability. Learn more from California leaders who are improving lives and working to ensure the success of ecological farming through the food reaches the forks of families. 

MLF Organizer: Cathy Curtis

MLF: Food Matters

Speakers

Vince Caguin

Director of Nutrition Services and Warehousing, Natomas School District

Paula Daniels

Founder, Center for Good Food Purchasing

Daphne Miller, M.D.

Clinical Professor, UC San Francisco; Author, Farmacology

Tracey Patterson

Director of Engagement and Strategy, California Food Policy Advocate

Hope Sippola

Farmer and Owner, Fiery Ginger Farm

Ben Thomas

Farm to Market Director, Community Alliance with Family Farmers