Floyd Farmers Market was voted a winner in Blue Ridge Country’s 2026 edition of the Best of the Mountains! We hope you are just as excited as we are to celebrate this amazing achievement! This contest was based on over 38,000 reader votes, and we thank everyone who voted for […]
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SustainFloyd will host a native pollinator perennial plant giveaway at the Floyd Farmers Market on Saturday, July 25, 2026. Plants will be available from 9:30am until they are gone. The plants are free to good homes, with donations accepted. Available Species All plants prefer full sun, but H. giganteus can
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SustainFloyd hosted a talk on July 11, 2026 to celebrate the launch of Butterfly Gardens for Floyd County with Floyd Native Plants. Katy Morikawa, butterfly enthusiast and author the guide, gave a presentation and Q&A at the Jessie Peterman Memorial Library in Floyd. Participants learned about local butterflies, the plants
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SustainFloyd will be offering the documentary The Little Things that Run the World for online viewing from July 19th through July 21st, 2026. There is no cost, but you will need to sign up on the form below to receive access details. The Little Things That Run the World introduces
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Join us in helping to develop more habitat for our declining pollinator population. SustainFloyd, working with Floyd Native Plants, is creating programs to help spread the word about the importance of maintaining biodiversity and keeping open the vital migration paths used by many of our valuable insects and birds. Let
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Below is some information and helpful tips on planting and caring for your native plants and trees in Floyd County. Please contact us if you have any questions about native plants you have received from SustainFloyd. Storing Your Potted Plants Until Planting Native plants can be planted any time of
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We are growing for you! We would like to see more and more patches of native plants re-established in Floyd to support our struggling pollinator insect and bird populations. Volunteers from Floyd Native Plants, Mother’s Child Farm and SustainFloyd have been growing and caring for a number of varieties of
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Support Native Biodiversity Interested in planting more native trees and shrubs into our local landscape? SustainFloyd is partnered with Plant SWVA Natives to offer discounted packages for bareroot native species- available for online pre-order and pick up Floyd Farmers Market! The plants must be pre-ordered using the QR code above
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New Year, a time to look at the way we want to bring something positive into the world, to bring hope. Each small thing we do can have meaning if we act with care and compassion. Follow the story of one small act of kindness on our next online film
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Food, Inc. 2, a documentary film about our food system, will be shown on Wednesday, October 2. After a long hiatus when we screened many documentaries on line, we are excited to be presenting this film ‘in person’ at the Floyd Center for the Arts. Just like old times, we
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New from Australia: Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to
SustainFloyd is offering a free online screening of the documentary film, Becoming Animal, from April 23-25, 2024. Sign up for the film below. Becoming Animal is a collaboration between filmmakers Emma Davie (The Oil Machine) and Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and the influential writer and geo-philosopher David Abram.
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