It’s a lovely word: beholding. It expresses seeing beyond the mere perception of light and color, comprehending the deeper realities of the thing seen. It obliges the beholder to a deeper level of discernment than the casual onlooker. It is…
The last movie of the SustainFloyd spring film series will come from  Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything.” Doors open at the Floyd Country Store at 6:00 on May 11 for the potluck (bring your own plates and utensils please) and the…
Today is the final full day before 25 St Joseph’s University students leave Floyd for Philly. We don’t know what kind of debriefing they will be involved in when they get back. We are not sure that any of their stories from…
This is the fourth year that SustainFloyd has hosted a group of spring-breaking students from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Our name for the week is FLEX–the Floyd Experience. The sponsoring organization’s name is VOLUNTOURS, a function of   …
Last night at the Floyd EcoVillage Celebration Hall the Floyd community in all its diversity showed up. We stood as a small subset of the  world-community addressing, through Patrick Holden’s long advocacy, the issues of creation-care, of food justice and change…
First before I forget: Let me remind you to join us at 6pm tonight at the Community Market for the annual Pot Luck Membership Dinner. If you’re not a member but are interested, or just want to come be a…
I’ve posted similarly in the past about my utter amazement at the number of local plants that have the potential to have their seeds carried literally miles away from the parent plant by the fur and feathers of animals; or…
…and the answer to yesterday’s Puzzler, below. But the flower you see here is one I don’t know to species. It looks like Monkshood (see the cowl?) but is a weak climbing vine. It was growing supported by various wet-meadow…
I had thought to put together a blog post on the Green Kingdom’s nefarious ways of spreading its seeds by way of animal fur. We have an exemplary observatory of that phenomenon in the neighbor’s woolly dog Feather that spends…
The spring flowering plants tend to get way more of the attention than those in any other season. And there is no great surprise in this. In spring we have waited across the dull, dreary monochrome months from November to…
So here’s one to end the blog-week: an unknown item of natural origin that many folks will have never come across. Who will be the first to identify it correctly? One notion that has occurred to me (when the Do-More…
We’re good to go now to let folks know about this nature-outdoor event happening just outside my front door in September. Come walk the trails from which so many stories and images have come to Fragments over the past thirteen…
This is how easily I am enthralled: Yesterday I had a little “assignment” to be at Riverstone Farm at 8 a.m. to shoot photos of the SustainFloyd refrigerated truck as it was loaded with local produce for delivery to Floyd…
I just noticed last night- -though it had probably been ramping up for a week or more–that the insect noises out our back door were deafening after dark. I came back in for my iPhone to record a snippet but…