Floyd Flower Power!

FLOWERS! They bring joy to our hearts and food to our pollinators. A sign of hope, they are nature’s promise of the fruit that will follow. Maybe its instinctive to love flowers. A team of fast moving, hard working gardeners and community helpers have joined with Partnership for Floyd to help make Floyd bloom. Floyd Flower Power is a new initiative in town, to encourage and help people to grow more flowers of all kinds, especially turning mowed lawns or empty pastures into more biodiverse and beautiful habitats.  Wildflowers are especially nice for our native pollinators, but fruit trees, bushes, herbs and garden vegetables all have flowers too.  We can each improve the quality of the environment around us by getting to know our flowers, improving our care for them and even planting more. Visit our website for more info and how you can get involved. https://floydflowerpower.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/FloydFlowerPower

Dodd Creek Fitness Trail

Dodd Creek Educational Nature and Fitness Trail at the Floyd County Recreation Park off Rt 8 just north of town is a free public trail open sunrise to sunset. Partnership for Floyd has designed eight stations along this 1.25 mile loop trail to use your body and mind, along with a few logs and benches, to have a great outdoor exercise experience. The instructions are geared toward the youth in all of us to help us work all the muscles of our body in tune with the nature around us. There are also plant identification signs to help hikers learn about our natural surroundings and bring attention to the natural habitat right here in our own backyard.

There is a short extension of the Dodd Creek Trail that winds through the woods and up to the picnic shelter / playground area. Blue Mountain School Students have painted a nature mural on the small building there. With all local plants and critters it is a sweet gift to our community.