Food Day 2015 at Williams College

October 21, 2015
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Chef Mark Thompson at a recent Food Day celebration on campus.

Food Day is an annual national celebration of good, healthy, real food, as well as an opportunity to push for improved food policies.

This year, Dining Services is facilitating a Food Vendor Fair at Baxter Hall in the Paresky Center on Thursday October 22 from 12-2pm.  Stop by to learn about various producers and vendors and, of course, to taste test!

Here are some of the vendors and food that will be there:

Black River Produce and Meats

Vermont Farms Grass Fed Beef Chili featuring VT Beancrafter Local Beans

Vermont Creamery Yogurt

Chef Myron

Nitty Gritty Pizza and Cornbread

USF Winter Sun Farms fruits and Vegetables

Lean Path Systems

Food Fanatics

Highlawn Farms Milk

Paradise Farms Apples

Peace Valley Farm – Bill Stinson & Students

Deans Beans

Ginsberg Foods Demo

Local apple cider and apples with Bill Stinson from Peace Valley Farm in the background. Photo credit - Celeste Berg
Local apple cider and apples with Bill Stinson from Peace Valley Farm in the background. Photo credit – Celeste Berg

 

Here’s a map of the Food Day events happening all over the country – on and around 10/24

Here’s a bit more about Food Day

October 24 is a day to resolve to make changes in our own diets and to take action to solvef ood-related problems in our communities at the local, state, and national level. In 2015, FoodDay has the theme “Toward a Greener Diet.”

This annual event involves some of the country’s most prominent food activists, united by a vision of food that is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve it.

With Food Day, we can celebrate our food system when it works and fix it when it’s broken. Across the country, more than 8,000 events took place in 2014, from community festivals in Denver, Savannah, and New York City, to a panel discussion on food justice in Washington, DC, to thousands of school activities in Portland, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. Hundreds of events are being planned on and around October 24, 2015, in all 50 states.