Posted by David Hamilton on January 29th, 2010 in Agriculture, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Education and Inspiration
For those relatively few of you who don’t subscribe to Pork Magazine, (the leading periodical of porcine agribusiness), I pass along an interesting article. It covers a study from Iowa State that compared Iowa farm acreage, as an investment, to the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index. The study’s authors conclude that the wisdom of [...]
Posted by ppeery on January 29th, 2010 in Architecture and Design, Education and Inspiration, General, Project Updates
Virginia Public Radio recently aired a segment on Bundoran Farmand our efforts to preserve the character and use of the 2,300 acres of this legacy landscape, promote ongoing environmental stewardship and craft a great place for people to live in and enjoy the countryside of Charlottesville, Virginia and Albemarle County region. Click here to for [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 28th, 2010 in Baldwin Center for Preservation, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General, Project Updates
The Baldwin Center for Preservation Development is open for business 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday, and by appointment on the weekends. You are invited to stop by to see and learn about all the interesting things happening at Bundoran Farm. Our new contact information is: Bundoran Farm 5005 Edge Valley Road North [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 22nd, 2010 in Agriculture, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Education and Inspiration, General, Nature/Environment, Project Updates
Below is the unabbreviated copy of the article written by Edward H. Carter that appeared in Piedmont Virginian magazine. Where do we go with this? Posited the fleece clad Bob Baldwin as he stood next to a blank whiteboard facing the fifty or so participants in the inaugural conference of the Baldwin Center for Preservation [...]
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Posted by David Hamilton on January 22nd, 2010 in Baldwin Center for Preservation, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, General
We received a nice mention of our inaugural symposium in the new issue of The Piedmont Virginian, a beautiful publication focusing on landscape and culture of Virginia. Apologies for the scan: there’s no online version: BCPD-Symposium-PVMag-Jan-2010
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Posted by ppeery on January 20th, 2010 in Education and Inspiration, Green Building
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Posted by David Hamilton on January 18th, 2010 in Architecture and Design, General
From the “Things We Covet” file: Sanyo’s new E-Bike. This is a standard, good-looking bicycle with a quiet 250 watt motor that kicks in on hills. The idea’s not new, but the execution this time is good. They’ve had practice, selling “tens of millions” of hybrid bikes in China. The Bundoran Farm team suggests that this might be [...]
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Posted by David Hamilton on January 15th, 2010 in Agriculture, Architecture and Design, Education and Inspiration, General, Nature/Environment
The Piedmont Virginian is a lovely magazine focusing on history, culture and preservation of Virginia’s rural heritage. It’s always a good read, especially when they do the occaisional feature on Bundoran Farm or someone we know in the Charlottesville area. This winter, Thomas Randolph has begun a fascinating new feature callled Deep Background. In each [...]
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Posted by David Hamilton on January 12th, 2010 in General
This month’s National Geographic has a brief mention of a new approach to managing Kudzu, the so-called “vine that ate the south.” Among the top five invasive species in Virginia, Kudzu was introduced intentionally in the 1930′s, from Asia, as a natural erosion control measure. After realizing the plant’s invasive quality (it currently devours about 150,000 acres [...]
Posted by David Hamilton on January 11th, 2010 in Agriculture, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Education and Inspiration
The Bundoran Farm team just visited with a friend, Collins Huff, of Gryffon’s Aerie. Collins and his wife Ramona run one of the most remarkable grass-fed beef operations in the country, and it happens to be here in Albemarle County. As if on cue, Collins’ visit to the Baldwin Center was presaged by a feature on [...]
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