Posted by ppeery on April 21st, 2010 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General
The Batesville Store, located a short drive down Plank Road from Bundoran Farm, is one of the many things that make this part of Albemarle County so unique and special. In addition great food, it’s one of the many nuclei of the Batesville/North Garden area. Whether meetings friends for lunch or be listening to [...]
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Posted by ppeery on April 11th, 2010 in Nature/Environment, Uncategorized
When I was young boy around 3 years old, immediately behind our house was a small woods. While in eyeshot and voice range of my mother, it was a great place for a young boy to play. As I explored these woods and hung out at the small fort my older brother built, I was [...]
Posted by ppeery on April 10th, 2010 in Education and Inspiration, General, Nature/Environment, Project Updates
This past week has been a pretty big media week for Bundoran Farm. The week started out with a cover story in C-Ville Abode, C-Ville Magazine’s publication focusing on all the essentials of homes, gardening and neighborhoods in the Charlottesville/Albemarle County region. The article entitle “Little Houses in the Big Woods” features some of the [...]
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Posted by David Hamilton on April 6th, 2010 in Baldwin Center for Preservation, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration
For those of you with more than a passing interest in rural preservation, we offer our final report on the Baldwin Center’s inaugural symposium: Residential Development and the Working Landscape. With support from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, participants in the two-day gathering looked at the problem of farmland loss, evaluated the existing preservation [...]
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Posted by David Hamilton on April 1st, 2010 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General, Nature/Environment
After environmentally-conscious developers, gentleman farmers and Norwegians with a sense of humor, we’ll have to add one more supposedly mythical creature to the Bundoran Farm menagerie. Always-bubbly Natural Resource Manager Leif Riddervold pulled off this grab shot of an elusive resident of Israel Mountain, after Bundoran residents Grady and Diane Lewis reported some unsolicited shrub-trimming [...]
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