Posted by ppeery on October 29th, 2009 in Education and Inspiration, General, Uncategorized
Yesterday, when driving along Plank Road heading to the Baldwin Center, I saw local artist, Malcolm Hughes, and one of his students with their easels set up painting the autumn colors currently coating the forest in and around Bundoran Farm. It’s always so nice to be in a place that is so beautiful that people [...]
Posted by ppeery on October 26th, 2009 in Baldwin Center for Preservation, Education and Inspiration, Project Updates
The Baldwin Center for Preservation Development hosted their inaugural symposium, Residential Development and the Working Landscape on October 15th and 16th at their new facilities located on Bundoran Farm. Over fifty participants with a variety of backgrounds, including farmers, developers, non-profit land conservation organizations, government officials, and leading academics came from across the country [...]
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Posted by ppeery on October 9th, 2009 in Education and Inspiration, General, Nature/Environment
The sapsucker nests predominantly in Canada, but also south of the Great Lakes and in New England south along the Appalachians to West Virginia. In the winter it is common in Virginia and the Southeast where it drills its characteristic ring of holes around the trunks and larger branches of trees. These holes do not [...]
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Posted by ppeery on October 5th, 2009 in Education and Inspiration, Nature/Environment
The birds on Bundoran Farm in winter are quite entertaining. Not only do we have the year round resident red tails, field sparrows, pheobes….woodpeckers..,.. etc but we have some water fowl that visit Lake Scogo and we have the wintering birds. Just this week the kinglets and yellow bellied sapsuckers returned. The sapsuckers have a [...]
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