The Sustainable Garden Products from the Garden Please join us On Saturday April 13, 2013 at Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale, NY for our Third Annual Educational Field Day, from 8am to 5pm. Schedule of Events: (location – Greenhouse Complex) 8:00 – 8:30am:  Opening Remarks. Michael Veracka, MLA, [...]

Please save the date and don’t miss the Third Annual Sustainable Garden Educational Field Day, to be held on Saturday April 13, 2013, from 8:30am – 4:30pm at Farmingdale State College’s Department of Ornamental Horticulture’s Teaching Gardens.  This year’s theme, Products From the Garden, will investigate landscape design strategies and [...]

In 2011 Farmingdale Horticulture student Joan Mahoney became our Sustainable Garden beekeeper, donating two hives to boot! With her nurturing care and expertise she extracted nearly 100 pounds of honey in 2012. With the help of the FSC Visual Communications Department, who designed a nifty logo, honey was loaded into jars [...]

On Friday April 20, Farmingdale State College’s Department of Ornamental Horticulture will host “Home Grown Food: Planning and Planting the Abundant Landscape.”  It will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Teaching Gardens and Greenhouse at the college. The public is invited, and the $5.00 admission will benefit [...]