By Suzanne Allcroft, Agriculture Intern
This Tuesday I had the privilege of attending a pizza party hosted by a group of students from Kennedy Middle School. But this wasn’t just any pizza party. The students made everything from scratch (even the cheese!) and it marked the finale of an after school class called Kitchen Literacy: Cooking, Nutrition, and Food Justice. For the final class, the students had invited their parents and teachers to enjoy their cooking.
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If you haven’t ever thought about it (and until recently, I hadn’t) the word “intern” has an interesting etymology. From the French interner or “to confine within set limits,” the word has use as both a noun and transitive verb. However, the definition can very greatly depending on its grammatical use.
Mondays have a bad reputation, definitely the underdog of the week. It is the day when you see a pile on the desk, when messages are checked and coffee gets spilled, the day blamed for the end of weekends and vacations. Mondays have even become the 
This week marked the beginning of a flood. And while it is unusual for it to rain in Los Altos in the summer, it is perfectly normal to drown in a tide of basil, cucumbers, and summer squash. This is second only to the yearly drenching in tomatoes and eggplant. Eating so much highly anticipated produce has my stomach and brain thinking about farms and how much I enjoy knowing farmers (a brief explanation: most of my actions, professional or otherwise, are motivated by my stomach. Freudian interpretations aside, I look forward to each meal and snack more than all holidays, vacations, and birthdays. Unless they also happen to involve meals). 
Being the first post, I’ll start with introductions….I am a former Hidden Villa intern now in the year-round position of Food Education Liaison and Intern Coordinator. Coordinating the intern program means, for the most part, answering questions – questions from interns, from other staff, and from many curious and motivated people who feel like Hidden Villa would be a great place to intern (first answer: it is). So let me take this opportunity/soapbox to toss a few things out there.