[image id="9198" title="World Food Day poster" class="size-medium wp-image-17025" width="257" height="300" ] Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) used bright colours and organic forms to express a reconciliation of humans with nature, notions that echo this year’s World Food Day theme. Image courtesy of the Hundertwasser Foundation.

CELEBRATE WORLD FOOD DAY AT COLE PARK TODAY, OCT. 16 — Healthy people depend on healthy food systems, say supporters of several local farmers' markets. You can join in the movement for a healthier world — and a healthier you! — by celebrating World Food Day today in Cole Park.

The celebration begins at 4:30 p.m. and continues until 9 p.m. today, October 16, with a rally, speakers and lots of locally grown fruits and vegetables. Vendors and food sampling begin at 5 p.m. Watch a screening of the movie "Food Fight" at 7:30 p.m. Local producers and restaurants will be sharing samples and selling locally grown goods.

The event is sponsored by the Corpus Christi Downtown and Southside Farmers' Markets and Taste of South Texas.

World Food Day is a global celebration sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

For more information, visit www.growlocalstx.com. Also, check out the Facebook page to see who's going!