Food For Thought hosts fundraising dinner in Sebastopol

Foods For Thought, a foodstuff lender in Forestville, hosted its fourth yearly “Our Very long Table” fundraiser on June 12 at the Vine Hill Residence in Sebastopol.

All-around 200 people gathered for evening meal outside on a grassy hill surrounded by flower gardens and overlooking hundreds of acres of vineyards and apple orchards to elevate dollars for the foodstuff lender, which delivers balanced meals for more than 7,000 Sonoma County inhabitants with significant health care circumstances.

Visitors have been served summer time wines donated by Acorn Winery, Moshin Vineyards, Pax Vineyard, and Emeritus Winery, and Park Avenue Catering developed a multicourse meal utilizing only antibiotic and hormone cost-free meats, wild and sustainably farmed fish, and fruits and greens developed by area farmers.

The $200-a-plate meal was followed by a dwell auction and a raffle with donated prizes which includes: a sculpture by Sebastopol-primarily based junk artist Patrick Amiot, an African photo safari, wine, and present certificates for a variety of dining places, massages and outfits outlets.

Spike Sikes and His Wonderful Hotcakes, a Sonoma County-centered jazz, blues, and soul band, executed live tunes on a shaded porch.

“It genuinely was flawless,” Karen Gardner, the food items bank’s development director, claimed. “The timing was ideal, the weather was ideal, the wine and food stuff were being terrific, and people were just so delighted.”

The function lifted $190,000 for Foods for Thought’s foodstuff guidance courses.

Meals for Believed started out in 1988 as a HIV support firm and has expanded drastically around time, now delivering food assistance and nutrition companies to hundreds of Sonoma County people with most cancers, congestive coronary heart failure, diabetes and other clinical ailments. Its most recent plan, known as Comprehensive Tummy, offers foods to pregnant girls at hazard of malnutrition.

To study much more about Food items for Assumed, go to www.fftfoodbank.org.