Hi Everyone! Partnership for Floyd is sponsoring “Land’s Sake! Floyd’s Journey Ahead” on April 16. Mark your calendar and come to participate! We are still in the planning stage and want you to join us.
Fun and Floyd may be synonymous, but nobody’s ever had quite so much fun as they did at last year’s inaugural Mardi Gras Ball, when 300 people came on a cold winter night to burn up the dance floor and reignite the fire in their souls.
National magazine honors Blue Ridge town for folk music and back-to-the-land traditions Floyd, Va., has earned a spot on Mother Earth News’ fifth annual “Great Places You’ve (Maybe) Never Heard Of” list. Mother Earth News, the leading magazine dedicated to sustainable living, features six communities in its February-March issue, on sale Jan. 25.
Leah Mitula, a native from Kenya, Africa will be visiting Floyd, VA. Leah started a woman’s co-op in Kenya to help support the education of children. Kenya does not have a public school system and many women are unemployed living in a poverty lifestyle. They do not have the means to send their children to […]
The Floyd Lions Club will host an open house fundraiser at “The Maples” on Friday, December 3, from 5 to 8 p.m., to coincide with the Chamber of Commerce Dickens of a Night. The historic home, located at 106 Maple Street in Floyd, was constructed ca. 1888 and was originally the home of A.T. and Minnie Howard. Elizabeth “Betty” Page […]
Floyd’s Blue Mountain School views community as its central point of reference. We have our current in-school community; the community of families and friends of this in-school community; the school’s alumni community; and, of course, the local community of Floyd, of which we are a small, but integral, part.
Many small businesses here in Floyd have business sites with blogs integrated into them.
I lift two heavy buckets of green beans fresh from the garden up onto the kitchen sink. The knees of my old worn kakis are dark-wet from kneeling to pick while the long green pods still drip with morning’s brief shower. Soon I will hear the hiss and rattle of the canner, the seal of […]
The coming of spring at our house is not measured by length of day or temperature. The first day of spring at my house is marked by the afternoon or evening of our first meal of the year on the front porch.
Familiarity breeds respect, and in a sense, it creates friends of nameless birds, trees, flowers or insects. A friend is not a generic person but a person you recognize as unique, you know their particular history, their preferences and the relationships they have with other friends and their community.