Saturday, August 27th at Floyd Farmers Market Do you think you grow the best-tasting tomatoes anywhere? Put your ’maters to the test. Bring them to the Floyd Farmers Market no later than 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 27, 2011 to be tasted by a panel of local tomato aficionados and …
Floyd County Groups Win Grant for Childhood Obesity Prevention Specialist / October 18,2010 Floyd, Virginia – The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth has granted the Multi-Disciplinary (MD) Team of Floyd County $59,841 to fund the hiring of a childhood obesity prevention specialist. New River Valley Community Services (NRVCS) will oversee …
Watch a short video of Floyd County kids “finding gold” behind the tractor. Food can be fun!
Over the 1999 spring semester, students enrolled in a sustainable development curriculum at Appalachian State spearheaded a project to collect food waste from campus food services. A year later, students in an Appropriate Technology curriculum track launched a pilot project, constructing an aerated static pile and composting about 18 tons …
…Rob Gardner, a Chicago- based locavore and editor at large for thelocalbeet.com, believes some critics have created an extreme caricature of the locavore as someone who forbids the consumption of any non-local food to suit their arguments. “I don’t think anyone is advocating such extremism,” said Gardner, who still drinks …
Locavores misguided, critics say – The Denver Post Read More »
About 35 Blue Mountain School (BMS) students, along with several BMS teachers and parent volunteers, spent a recent morning planting potatoes as part of Floyd’s Farm to School Program (FTS). The planting, supervised by the Five Penny Farm farmers at their fields on Shooting Creek Road, was the latest step …
Shifting from feedlot farming to rotational grazing solves several environmental problems, says Bill McKibben in Orion Magazine. We’re flat out of predators in most parts of the world, and it’s hard to imagine, in the short time that we have to deal with climate change, ending the eating of meat …
The Argument for Rotational Grazing: Bill McKibben Read More »
Following are excerpts from an article on the unique economic approach to sustainability underway in Floyd County. Read it all in the March-May issue of Appalachian Voice (page 9) or click on the link, then click again to enlarge the page and read the article. …“We hope to continue to …
Floyd: Economic Production vs Environmental Protection Read More »
“Peak” is a popular word these days—in particular when used before the word oil. But Peak Dirt? The concept refers to topsoil or, to be more specific, topsoil depletion. Earth, on average, is covered with about 3 feet of topsoil and this shallow skin of nutrient-rich matter sustains most of …
A genetically engineered pig recently approved for limited production in Canada makes urine and feces that contain up to 65 percent less phosphorous, officials have announced. That could be good news for lakes, rivers, and ocean deltas, where phosphorous from animal waste can play a role in causing algal blooms. …
Building Future-Pigs: Less Phosphorus, Fewer Dead Zones Read More »