Greetings Neighbors and Earthlings, all.
While the scope of human activities has contracted and its pace churned to a stop on many fronts, we should be planning for the world and life ahead on the other side of Covid.
SustainFloyd wants you to join them as we consider together what kind of world we want to create, and how best to arrive there. Join us on November 14-15 for this unique event focusing on energy conservation, sustainable agriculture, environmental protection and simple living.
You'll meet and interact with local educators, and artists; naturalists and entrepreneurs, whose stories and witness point the way towards global well-being in the post-Covid climate-chaotic world.
Visit exhibits; join webinars and tutorials; hear the stories of practitioners and entrepreneurs whose success does not come at Earth's expense.
Your $5 ticket for both days will bring you to the front row of the audience for two top-tier international speakers--Patrick Holden, Sustainable Ag expert and farmer from Great Britain, and Dr. Zack Bush, prominent spokesman for Regenerative Agriculture. They join us because they believe in this event you are now part of.
Many of you know of SustainFloyd in the one-traffic-light town of Floyd. You've seen the Solar VoltsWagon, the refrigerated farm-to-market truck and shopped at the vibrant Farmers Market that was created and is staffed and operated by this grassroots group.
This year's Blue Ridge Virtual EcoFair represents a drastic shift in the means, but the message and mission for this small non-profit has not changed: "To undertake projects that support the environment, agriculture, renewable energy and community well-being.
It really is a small planet. We really are neighbors.
And it will be wonderful to have you join us and from this event, carry conversations you'll have on two days in November into your own life-environment and community, wherever on the globe you live. Just click the button below to find your ticket waiting for you. (A larger donation of $25 will allow four students to attend with a gift ticket purchased by your generosity. Thank you!)
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Hi Fred,
Couldn’t find an email for you so figured I’d post this here. My wife and I (and now our 3 month old daughter) are both from the San Diego area, and have been homesteading in the mountains east of there for the last few years. We've come to the conclusion that life here just isn't going to work over the long term, as the drought gets worse, sprawl takes over more and more land, and fires get increasingly intense. It’s a tough decision, since most everyone we know lives here. We’ve been trying to figure out where to start a new life, and one of the top candidates is the western part of Virginia. I stumbled across your writings through a comment on Simon Sarriss’ substack, and I’ve been greatly inspired by them. Truthfully, knowing that there are people like you who live out there brings it up a couple notches. So I guess I’m just wondering what advice you’d have for an outsider potentially looking to relocate to your region? Anything in particular to be aware of? If you had to do it all over again would you still settle there? Planning to come out within the next couple months to investigate. We’re looking for a modest house and a few acres near a smallish town good for raising a family, and are both into permaculture and natural building, and I’m an avid home winemaker. Anyhow, I know all this is fairly broad and open ended, but I'd really appreciate your thoughts!
Best,
Andrew Haupt