Posted by Joe Barnes on March 10th, 2010 in Agriculture, Nature/Environment
With the Spring on its way. We are starting to experience the arrival of new calves around the farm. The other day I noticed at least 9 newly born calves dotting the pastures. Here’s a bit of video of them moving around.
I love watching the young calves romp around. They remind me of large puppies, [...]
Posted by Joe Barnes on February 26th, 2010 in Agriculture, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General, Nature/Environment
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 [...]
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 putting [...]
Posted by Joe Barnes 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 Development. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by David Hamilton on December 22nd, 2009 in Agriculture, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General
We just saw an interesting short feature on the economic impact of agritourism in Augusta County. Augusta is seeing a comeback in farm acreage, swimming against the tide of decline. This story focused on some of the non-traditional recreational activities, some very distant from what we’d call agriculture, which are becoming essential economic engines for [...]
Posted by David Hamilton on December 16th, 2009 in Agriculture, Education and Inspiration, General
Someone just asked me for a picture from Bundoran Farm’s trail network. I dug through the files and found a few shots from this fall on Israel Mountain, the ridgeline trail that tracks the western boundary of Edge Valley, and one looking down from the gazebo near the treeline on Tom Mountain, above Lake Scogo [...]
Posted by David Hamilton on December 13th, 2009 in Agriculture, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Education and Inspiration
In defiance of economic conditions, my wife and I recently had the opportunity to dine with some friends at Jean-Georges in New York. The grandparents foolishly offered to host the kids overnight, and before they finished the sentence, Hillary and I were in the New York suburbs. If you haven’t heard of JG, it’s the flagship of JG Vongerichten, quite [...]
Posted by David Hamilton on December 12th, 2009 in Agriculture, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Education and Inspiration
I just got a chance to have lunch with Friend-of-Bundoran Andrew Morley. Andrew is an interesting fellow who has decided to take an extended break from the world of hedge funds (whatever those are) and focus on something really exciting: artisanal cheese.
During his journey through the world of artisanal cheeses, Andrew has worked and studied [...]