Floyd’s Land’s Sake 2012
I’ve been tending other blogs this morning, getting ready for this year’s Earth Day event which, starting last year, is dubbed “Land’s Sake” and this year, is subtitled Field Forest and Farm.
Details are just coming together but the vendors from last year have been notified and invited back. Plus, this year, sales will be allowed for those earthcare-related products and services for vendors who apply and quality. Also vendors on a first-request basis will have the opportunity to speak to small groups on topics related to their products, services or expertise, either in small groups at their table station or from designated speaking areas that may include microphone and AV projection plus seating for 20-30 listeners.
Last year’s event was super–very well attended and with much energy and enthusiasm, even though we had flooding rains all day long.
Please check back to the web site at floyd-landsake.blogspot.com/ from time to time as the Land’s Sake 2012 program takes shape!
Fred First holds masters degrees in Vertebrate Zoology and physical therapy, and has been a biology teacher and physical therapist by profession. He moved to southwest Virginia in 1975 and to Floyd County in 1997. He maintains a daily photo-blog, broadcasts essays on the Roanoke NPR station, and contributes regular columns for the Floyd Press and Roanoke's Star Sentinel. His two non-fiction books, Slow Road Home and his recent What We Hold in Our Hands, celebrate the riches that we possess in our families and communities, our natural bounty, social capital and Appalachian cultures old and new. He has served on the Jacksonville Center Board of Directors and is newly active in the Sustain Floyd organization. He lives in northeastern Floyd County on the headwaters of the Roanoke River.
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