Bundoran Farm – Your Land of Winter Wonders

Posted by ppeery on February 26th, 2010

With this season’s record snowfalls, Bundoran Farm has become a winter wonderland. The verdant pastures and majestic forests are covered with a broad and deep white coat making it quite easy to understand and appreciate the land’s features and resulting life experiences of this distinctive place and time.

By means of a short poll, we came up with a list of some of the top things to do in, and with, the snow at Bundoran Farm.

Take your sled out of your attic and pretend you are on the Olympic luge team as you glide across the pastures and by the orchards.
Make what you think is the world’s biggest snowman with your friends, kids and/or grandkids. If you are really ambitious and creative, you can make a snow cow too.
Watch the shadows grow across the snow covered pastures as the morning rises in the east, shrink during the day, and grow long again as the sun sets in the west over the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Drive, ride and/or walk on the Bundoran Farm roads that, due to the diligent efforts of the farm management team, are plowed well in advance of surrounding roads.
Enjoy time with your neighbors next to a warm fire, over a hearty homemade stew made with fresh ingredients from one of the many local “farm to table” sources, with a nice bottle of wine from a nearby vineyard.
Marvel in the nearly heroic efforts of the farmers to keep their cattle well feed with the hay they cut and put up the previous summer.
Listen to the serene, almost “sounds of silence’, interrupted by the babbling of a nearby stream, the call of a far off bird or the whistle of the wind passing through the branches of the hardwoods.
Discover and follow the tracks in the snow created by abundant wildlife that inhabits this protected landscape or make new tracks in the virgin snow for someone else to discover and follow.
Sit back, relax and ponder the beauty of it all and relish in the realization that this is your place and your time with a way of life on a land that works.

Please let us know what you think we should add to the list by e-mailing us at info@bundoranfarm.com.