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Summary:

The Baum Forum is a program of conferences and seminars held periodically to focus public and restaurant industry attention on food and agricultural issues.

The mission of the Forum is to stimulate debate and help create informed decision-makers, focusing on culinary students, professional food and beverage purchasers, home chefs and public policy makers. While the Baum Forum's emphasis has been on bringing compelling topics to the discussion table and on fostering dialogue among a variety of participants, the seriousness of the issues is tempered with culinary demonstrations and classes, practical workshops, and a good amount of sustainably produced regional food and wine. Baum Forum speakers include farmers and other food producers, chefs and restaurant owners, retailers, policy makers, consumer advocates, journalists, and scientists.

Current Projects:

2008 Program: "Schools, Food and Community”

Third in a series of Baum Forum conferences focusing on the implementation of programs and policies that foster healthy food choices and well-being in school children. The conference will focus on attempting to strengthen the resolve of children to eat nutritious, fresh foods by:

connecting holistic food and nutrition messaging in our classrooms, cafeterias, after-school programs, homes, and neighborhoods;

fostering relationships among school children and their communities that focus on food, cooking, and gardening;

exploring the nuts and bolts of cross sector (i.e. health, education, foodservice, and agriculture) public and private collaborations; and

promoting federal, state and local policies that strengthen economic and cultural bonds between local farms and schools, support the development of school gardens, and provide adequate funding for healthy, delicious school lunches for all students.

The “Community” component of r\the 2008 theme spotlights initiatives that extend beyond school grounds to bring healthier foods into surrounding neighborhoods - students working and learning in community gardens, teens operating farmers’ markets at schools, and kids and parents advocating for healthier food options in their corner stores through “Adopt-a-Bodega” programs.

(6) http://baumforum.org/pages_basic-site/next.htm

Past Forums:

2007 Schools, Food and Gardening: Cultivating a Healthy Future

2007 conference themes included:

Using a holistic approach to encourage healthy food attitudes and behaviors in school children by offering appealing, nutritious meals and engaging, related educational activities;

Integrating locally grown farm and school garden food into cafeterias and classrooms; and

Empowering of youth through urban agriculture, cooking, and marketing enterprises.

(7) http://baumforum.org/pages_archive/archive-schoolfood07_summary.htm

2006 Schools and Food: Innovation, Opportunity and Wellness

The 2006 conference was developed in part as a response to the movement to improve food in schools in the USA and in Europe. Fueled by concerns about the nutritional health of children, childhood obesity, and the intrusion of commercially branded foods and beverages into the school environment, the movement is attracting interest from policy makers, professionals and advocates from a diversity of fields and an increasingly vocal community of parents.

(8) http://baumforum.org/pages_archive/archive-schoolfood06_summary.htm

History:

The Baum Forum, a program of Public Market Partners, was launched in 1999 at the Culinary Institute of America. After a second multi-day conference there in 2000, the Baum Forum’s third major educational event on food and farming moved to New York City. In fall of 2002, more than 400 people attended A Growing Concern, a weekend of conference sessions, culinary workshops, and The Metropolitan Marketplace, a regional tasting. The Forum’s 2004 -2006 programs were held at The Graduate Center, CUNY, concluding with a sold-out conference, Schools and Food: Innovation, Opportunity and Wellness.

Organizer:

Hilary Baum is the Director of Baum Forum and President of Public Market Partners, a not-for-profit corporation established in 1991. For 15 years, as a producer of educational seminars, multi-day conferences and special events focusing on food, farming and markets, it has been her primary effort to advance the dialogue on critical issues among industry professionals and culinary students, market managers and family farmers, government officials and concerned citizens. She recently completed her term as founding Coordinating Director of Food Systems Network NYC, a collaborative effort of government agencies, non profits and individuals to further access to fresh and healthy food in all NYC neighborhoods and to strengthen the regional farm and food economy.

Hilary Baum is the co-author of Public Markets and Community Revitalization (1994), The Lifespice Cookbook (1985) and the Map and Guide to Riverside Park (1983). She is currently an advisor to The New York City Wholesale Farmers’ Market Feasibility Study and Cornell University’s Community, Food and Agriculture Program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Cornell University (English) and studied at Parsons School of Design (Environmental Design) and City College of New York, CUNY (Urban Landscape). She is a member of Les Dames D’Escoffier International, Chefs Collaborative, and Slow Food USA, board member of Earth Environmental Group, Friends of Van Cortlandt Park, Hawthorne Valley Association, and founder of the Riverdale CSA.