SustainFloyd’s Mobile Solar Generator is still under construction, but our team made a lot of progress on a workday earlier this month. SustainFloyd board members Rick Brown, Woody Crenshaw and Billy Weitzenfeld worked with Mark Hanson of REVA, Mike Burgoon and others to get the project near completion. The mobile solar generator, which we’re calling...
Roanoke Social Entrepreneur and Developer Ed Walker to Speak SustainFloyd invites the community to indulge in gourmet soups from local restaurants at SF’s Dine for a Cause year-end fundraising supper at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8th, at the Floyd Country Store. Oddfella’s Cantina & Tapas, Mickey G’s Bistro and Pizzeria, the Floyd Country Store,...
Gibby Waitzkin Theresa “Tree” Gigante Fred First SustainFloyd will present the exciting movie, “A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet” this Saturday, November 9th at the Floyd Country Store. “A Fierce Green Fire,” narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd and Meryl Streep, was the Official Selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival....
winning Favorite Jack O Lantern of Childrens ClassIn spite of the cold weather, Saturday’s market was busy and market goers seemed to enjoy themselves. It was the last market of the formal market season and informal marketing will now begin. Please contact the Sustain Floyd office for information on vending in the Pavilion through the...
Farmer Bryan Vest of Old Millstone Farm digs potatoes with 3rd graders from Check Elementary School.Floyd County celebrates Farm to School week this year with all five public schools receiving regular deliveries of fresh food grown by local farmers – including a class of third graders at Check Elementary School. The program has grown from...
Increasingly cool temperatures favor the growth of the leafy greens and push the winter squash, pumpkins, and many late ripening fruits to ripen up. Cold weather sweetens many leafy greens. Apples and pears are peaking in maturity. Chestnuts and chinquapins are already in the market and the number of mushrooms has increased as well. There...
Can five young people with no farming experience make their dream of local food production a reality in an age of industrialized agriculture? That’s the question explored in “To Make a Farm,” the kick-off film in SustainFloyd’s 2013 Winter Film Series on Saturday night, October 19th at 6 p.m. at the Floyd Country Store. The...
Come Support the Floyd Farmers Market with Local Eggs, Local Sausage & All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes on Oct. 12 Breakfast at the Market, August 2012.Join SustainFloyd for Breakfast at the Market to help support the Floyd Farmers Market this Saturday, Oct. 12 from 8:30 until 11 am SustainFloyd members and volunteers will prepare buckwheat pancakes with fruit...
Bill Rapseik and his micro-green demonstrationWhile some late summer products are still available, seasonal products are tending to the late fall crops now. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, collards, kale and chard, spinach, arugula, some baby and head lettuce, kohlrabi, daikon radishes, and more “deco-edible” winter squashes are on the tables. A few eggplants, peppers, green...
SustainFloyd is now enrolling students for a pair of workshops in November that will explore Organic Certification and walk you through the application process. Tony Kleese, who designed and is teaching our Pocket Farm Class Series, will lead these two workshops. Class 1: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, deals more with...
EBT table volunteers Beth Deskins and Shay Williams with Raja, the dog.Now is the time to purchase the food products that you need to preserve for the upcoming winter. We have it in the Floyd Farmers Market! Green beans, leafy greens, summer and winter squashes and pumpkins, potatoes, and more are there for the canners....
Sam Lev showing off a Good Food Good People appleWe had the flower bouquet raffle drawing on Saturday. Teresa Gigante of Perennial Uprisings created her beautiful bouquet for the event and it was on display for a few hours, which resulted in some last minute sales of the raffle tickets! The lucky winner was Marty...