Adelphi University Employees Volunteer at Local Farm

On Saturday August 15th, more than 20 Adelphi University employees and their families spent a day harvesting fresh local produce for our hungry neighbors on Long Island at Bethel Hobbs Community Farm. As “National Farmers Market Week” comes to a close, it is still vitally important to appreciate the services that farmers and farmers markets provide to the community. Volunteers planted vegetables, weeded the fields, and harvested.

Bethel Hobbs Community Farm provides fresh, nutritious and free local produce to the needy through a network of local food pantries and food programs. Since 2011, Adelphi has volunteered at Hobbs Farm and given back to the community to bring awareness to food production and the issue of hunger on Long Island. Employees have also supported homeless and food distribution charities such as Island Harvest and tackled sustainable solutions to reduce its impact on the environment by volunteering at Grossman’s Farm & Shellfish Restoration.

Bethel Hobbs Community Farm sits on 11 acres of farmland in Centereach, Long Island. Volunteers aid in the farm field operation and last season 30,000 pounds of vegetables ranging from garlic and onions to eggplant, squash and sweet potatoes were harvested and distributed to food pantries.

To learn more about Adelphi’s commitment to sustainability, visit http://green.adelphi.edu/.

About Adelphi University

New York’s Adelphi University is a nationally ranked, doctoral research university where students succeed by gaining the skills, knowledge and exposure to thrive as professionals and active citizens in an interconnected and fast-paced global society. Today, nearly 8,000 students from 39 states and 46 countries pursue degrees in person and online through Adelphi’s eight distinguished schools and programs—the College of Arts and Sciences, the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the Honors College, the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, the College of Nursing and Public Health and the School of Social Work. Chartered in 1896, Adelphi is known for offering a personalized education—one is which students are mentored by talented and committed faculty members and readily find opportunities to initiate, innovate, explore and understand. With dynamic learning hubs on Long Island, in Manhattan and in the Hudson Valley, Adelphi serves communities, both regionally and globally, through the research and practice of its faculty, the collaborative initiatives undertaken by its centers and programs, the staging of distinguished cultural events and, most essentially, the education of future leaders and informed citizens.