SustainFloyd is working with the Floyd Native Plant Initiative to bring more native pollinator plants to the community. This Wednesday, May 24, is the first giveaway of seedlings that are being grown by volunteers to research which plants can be recommended to gardeners and growers in the Floyd County. You
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Rain or Shine: Tomorrow we’re collecting recyclables and reusables tomorrow. Bring them to the SustainFloyd office, next to the Farmers Market. So much of what we throw out, or even recycle, can be more environmentally handled by finding a reuse. Many of our market vendors and other small businesses in
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We are participating in the NexTrex Challenge. To complete this challenge we need to collect 500 pounds of plastic film in six months! Bring your plastic film to the Farmer’s Market on our recycling day the first Saturday of every month. Once we complete the challenge, you’ll get to enjoy
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With the reopening of the Farmers Market we will be offering a monthly recycling event. Here’s a list of the items we will be collecting for recycling this month: It is really important that you make sure all items are clean and dry. We will be storing them until we
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SustainFloyd’s latest offering in our online film series is the new documentary The Revolution Generation from Josh & Rebecca Tickell, (Kiss the Earth, Fuel, Pump). The film will be available for on-demand viewing anytime from Earth Day, April 22 to May 22, 2022. Please complete the sign up form below
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We are celebrating the UN International Day of Happiness, March 20, 2022 with a free on-demand showing of the film Mission: Joy. The film is an enlightening, peek-behind-the curtain, 90-minute documentary built around an historic 5-day meeting between two of the world’s most consequential spiritual leaders – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Bring your #5 plastic & plastic film Floyd County is working hard to provide recycling options to our community and we have great resources in the recycling containers at the green box sites. Please use those for the commonly recycled items. It is important to clean and sort your recycling so
This event has been cancelled. Please email us if you have any questions. SustainFloyd is pleased to announce Coming Home to the Living Earth, a week-long in-person retreat on June 4-11, 2022 at Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary in Floyd, Virginia. Join our skilled forest guides and naturalists for a deep dive
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The film, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, is available to view from Thursday, January 27 until end of day Sunday, January 30, 2022. To follow up on this powerful films, we have a special discussion scheduled for Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 6:00pm EST. The discussion features Jeffrey Smith of
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We are so excited to be able to share this film with you. This is a new release, still doing the rounds of the film festivals and just being released for community screenings. It is the powerful story of Vandana Shiva. Vandana Shiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty
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Our holiday gift to the community is a free online showing of the documentary, THE DIVIDED BRAIN. This is a mind-altering odyssey about one man’s quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains, and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental and social issues; ones that shape our very future as a species.
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Have you seen the news of possible shortages in stores this year? Don’t fret! This is the perfect opportunity to start simplifying your holidays. Deciding to go lean on what you buy this holiday season doesn’t mean you have to stop giving (or receiving) gifts. It’s about seeking meaningful, wildlife-friendly alternatives that don’t harm
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