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communities and service organizations. Attendance is 30,000 persons per year for these educational programs. Outside of the formal educational programs, children, adults, and families can visit with farm animals, explore the farm's gardens or hike on the surrounding eight miles (13 km) of trails.
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with 53 charter members in 1933. It was the 4th chapter founded in the club and its founding is marked by a placard at the top of the Creek Trail. Frank and
Josephine were also founders of Friends Outside, a support group for prisoners and their families. The Duvenecks sheltered Japanese-Americans
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Hidden Villa was donated, by the whole
Duveneck family, to the people of the region upon Frank's death in 1985. It was a major concern of the Duvenecks that the headwaters of Adobe Creek would be protected so that the water would never be polluted. They purchased land to protect the entire upper
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which requires a 150-foot (46 m) setback from the creek's bank. One concern of residents is risk of flooding from development on the creek's floodplain on Hidden Villa property, as the creek has a history of flooding, with flood damages occurring in 1952, 1955, 1983, 1986, 1995 and 1998. A
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Hidden Villa's educational programs include environmental education, day and residential summer camps, community programs on sustainability, animal husbandry and nature, and its community supported agriculture program which supplies local, organic, and sustainably grown produce to neighboring
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designated a strip through the lower fields as having a 1 in 500 year chance of flooding. Heifer estimated that approximately 10,800 visitors annually would visit the 8.5-acre site, which would work out to about 45 students on any given day. The project has since been cancelled.
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based on collections likely made in 1898. The reaches upstream from Hidden Villa have been judged excellent trout habitat. Local historian
Florence Fava also reported that "the creeks which lace the property and join Adobe Creek were originally full of fish".
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is a United States nonprofit educational organization teaching programs on environmental and multicultural awareness. In 1924, Frank and
Josephine Duveneck founded this working organic farm and wilderness area on land comprising the upper
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at Hidden Villa. The nation's first multicultural children's summer camp has operated there since 1945. Hidden Villa was incorporated as The Trust for Hidden Villa, 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, in 1960. Hidden Villa's
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had purchased conservation easements on 1,560 of the 1,600 acres, leaving only the lower 40 acres for possible development. This fulfilled the wishes of the
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Chapter maintains a native plant nursery at Hidden Villa, and holds two plant sales annually in April and
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