Partnership for Floyd Inc

Some PFF active members in our community park for Earth Day 2024

Several projects are keeping our members and friends busy in our quest to preserve and enhance the unique beauty and quality of life in and around Floyd, Virginia.  We need your help!

PFF is working with the county, local organizations and individuals to organize practical Rural Skills Workshops throughout the year that will be helpful for our community.  Things like first aid, chainsaw use, and gardening. Let us know what kinds of workshops you might be interested in and how you might be able to help by emailing us at PartnershipForFloyd@gmail.com

    This spring PFF organized a Floyd Emergency Preparedness Fair.  After Hurricane Helene and other recent disasters it became evident that we could be better prepared as individuals and as a community.  Floyd County and New River Valley Emergency Teams and organizations gathered to share information and offer advice. This event further demonstrated the need for rural skills workshops throughout the year.

FLOYD EARTH MONTH this year was organized in April by PFF.  Different organizations and businesses sponsored free Nature activities to celebrate Earth Day all month here in Floyd.  From guided nature hikes, seed swaps and tree sales, to geological and natural history exhibits.  The Appalachian Species Giant Puppet Parade was the highlight of the month with Springhouse School organizing the making of over 100 giant puppets to honor local species. This Community Earth Day event and parade, held in Lineberry park, was a huge success.  We hope you can join us next year for even more fun!

 

FLOYD FLOWER POWER, a Partnership for Floyd  group has been planting flowering plants and trees all around Floyd for two years now.  Getting community involved at all levels.  Helping Floyd Bloom! Our downtown flower boxes are planted and maintained by Velva & Gordon Groover, with Flower Power volunteers and your donations.  Let us know if you want to help! 

 

Flowers are known to be good for community spirit and, of course, good for our butterflies, bees and biodiversity! During the winter we provide seasonal decorations to replace flowers.

140  tree saplings were subsidized and sold cheaply on Earth Day for three springs in a row. Complete with tree tubes and stakes to protect them. Your donations help to plant more trees!

PAST ACTIVITIES LIKELY TO COME AGAIN SOMETIME SOON!

The 2023 FLOYD COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR was a great success.  Over 40 different health professionals gathered to answer questions,  have conversations, and exemplify the wide range of healers we have in our community.

We partnered with Blue Mountain School to do a nature mural on the restroom at the Rec Park near the picnic shelter / playground area in 2023.  Students of all ages worked for months to research native wildlife to share a mural with our community.

 

In 2023 We completed eight nature fitness stations along the Dodd Creek Trail to help people limber up and strengthen every muscle while learning more about and enjoying nature.  That trail, behind the town-county athletic fields just off Route 8, and the Park-to-Library Trail in the middle of town, were built and improved in stages over the past years -- through our efforts and town and county cooperation. 

Signs and labels at both trails now describe the surrounding trees, plants, and wildlife. Both of these trails are great for exercise and for learning about our natural habitat here on the Blue Ridge Plateau. PFF purchased a trail mower for the athletic park specifically for keeping the Dodd Creek Trail in good shape. Already the trail is being enjoyed by many more individuals and families of our community.

We expanded the nature trail up into the picnic area and children's playground to make that space more environmentally educational for all ages.  Educational Wildflower signs are posted at the Dodd Creek Trail entrance.

To offer free rural skills workshops, expand Flower Power plantings, and support educational trail and park upgrades and maintenance, we seek to raise more funds through the Give Local appeal.   All our work over the years has been carried out with generous gifts of money, materials, individual volunteer sweat and time, and the kind cooperation of our local governing bodies.  

We at Partnership for Floyd are very grateful for our wonderful and supportive Floyd community!!

THANK YOU!!!