Our Stories

Imagine three circles that take in all of our life’s important domains: the circle of human physical and spiritual well-being; the circle of global health and sustainability; and the circle of mankind’s economic engines that turn nature into commerce and profit. They are inextricably interconnected, and yet in today’s world, they are treated as discrete...

The Market Breakfast is becoming a summer tradition anticipated by market regulars, locals and out-of-town visitors who discover to their delight that they can have buckwheat pancakes and all the fixin’s a few steps away from the market. Settling into the shade of the massive maple at the edge of the Floyd Village Green or...

This year’s Dine for a Cause community gathering enjoyed learning from author and farmer, Anthony Flaccavento, from his wide and long experience in land care and community well-being. The evening’s dialogue was recorded, and we’ll offer it to you here in installments over the coming months, so check back from time to time. Listen here...

New-comers and old-timers alike knew and loved Nola Albert. She was perpetually curious, consistently generous and unfailingly accepting of folks from all walks of life. And she was ahead of her times, anticipating the ways we need to care for each other by caring for the soil and air made available to us. Her gift...

For four years – 2012 through 2016 – SustainFloyd hosted twenty-something twenty-something year olds from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. It was a life-changing experience for many of them – a first time experience of cooking their own meals, stoking the wood stove that would keep them warm, gathering eggs, pulling weeds and dancing with...