SustainFloyd is pleased to announce the 2023 Trees and Shrubs for Wildlife Program, providing local landowners with native species that enhance and create wildlife habitat. We are offering an assortment of native trees and shrubs for fall planting. These species are easy to grow and adapted to our local climate. …
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SustainFloyd Foundation, an environmental non-profit based in Floyd Virginia, is seeking to hire a manager for the Floyd Farmers Market. The activities include managing all aspects of the Farmers Market enterprise; being an advocate for local farmers, Market vendors, customers, sponsors and for the SustainFloyd Foundation. The manager will be …
SustainFloyd is offering a free online screening of Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty from Thursday, September 28 to Saturday, September 30, 2023. Sign up below. Stewart Lee Udall was the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior in American history. STEWART UDALL: The Politics of Beauty is a …
Meet & Greet Local Author Diane Flynt SustainFloyd is happy to host a community gathering at the Floyd Library on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 3:00pm. We will celebrate local author Diane Flynt and the topic she has embraced: apples. Attendees have reserved spaces for what promises to be a …
Free online screening on demand now until August 31! How about some good news for a change? KISS THE GROUND unveils a game-changer to our climate crisis: the Earth’s own soil. The documentary offers a solution to global warming– “Regenerative Agriculture”. The film presents the research, practice, and hope we …
Plastics & The Future Of Our Planet with Bill McKibben & Elizabeth Kolbert 🖥️ Celebrate Plastic Free July by joining this event from Beyond Plastics, this Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET for an eye-opening conversation about plastic and the future of our planet with environmental leader and author, …
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 …
A free online on-demand showing of this fascinating documentary is planned for June 8-10. Sign up below to receive viewing information by email. HORSESHOE CRAB MOON follows the scientists, researchers, and citizen scientists as they study the decline of the horseshoe crab along the East coast, and in particular the …
SustainFloyd is pleased to offer “The Invisible Extinction” for free on-demand viewing from April 20th to 22nd, 2023. Please complete the sign up form below to receive a registration link for the film. Two globetrotting microbiologists, Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser, race to save our vanishing microbes before it’s too late. …
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SustainFloyd’s latest online film offering is the PBS documentary Extinction: The Facts. We are happy to offer free online streaming of this important video from PBS. David Attenborough has spent a life in love with the natural world and has produced some of the most beautiful documentaries of wild life …
When all the visitors leave and it’s time to move on to a fresh New Year there are abundant opportunities to take the more ecologically friendly road. From the wrappings and packaging of the presents under the tree, the tree itself, the old Christmas lights, unwanted gifts and overstocked food …
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 …