'Food Day' Hosted Thursday by Farmingdale State

Farmingdale State College is hosting "Food Day" Thursday, a celebration of locally grown products and the people who nurture them.

The event, in the Campus Center Ballroom, runs from 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. and is open to the public.

Food day was created to offer people a vision of food that is healthy, affordable and produced with the environment, farm animals and those who harvest and serve it, college officials said.

The event features demonstrations, lectures and a wide range of exhibitors. They include: 

• Michael Veracka  ( FSC Ornamental Horticulture) - Sustainable  Gardens
• August Ruckdeschel (Suffolk County Agriculture and Fisheries)  -  Agriculture and Fisheries
• Heather Forest and Larry Foglia (Long Island Community Agricultural Network (LICAN)) - Display and Market of Produce
• Aramark - From Farm to Table food tasting, demonstration, and display
• Dr. Sophia Perdikaris ( Brooklyn College CUNY)- Food for Thought: Sustainability and Alternatives in the Anthropocene, a grass roots perspective
• Bhavani Jaroff (Slow Food Huntington)  Food Demonstration and Discussion of Slow Food Movement
• Dr. Zahrine Bajwa (Cornell Cooperative Extension) -  Food Security
• Amy Engel (Sustainable Long Island)  -  Food Equity , Access, Food Report Card
• Mary Kirby-Diaz (FSC Sociology) - Locavors
• Beth Fiteni (Green Inside and Out Consulting) - Clarification of Food Terms, the Vocabulary of Food