Posted by Joe Barnes on May 2nd, 2010 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, Nature/Environment, Project Updates
Bundoran Farm residents, future residents and team members spent part of May Day, working on trail maintenance along Israel Mountain. In addition to working hard to clear and clean up one of the many trails that run through the managed forest of Bundoran Farm we had a great time socializing and learning about the wonderfully [...]
Posted by Joe Barnes on May 1st, 2010 in Architecture and Design, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General
Bundoran Farm and more importantly, the Heimgartner Family, reach another significant milestone yesterday. Construction started on Ken and Ida Heimgarnter’s new home at Bundoran Farm.
Situated on a knoll over looking Plank Road and the surrounding protected pastures and forested ridges of this Albemarle Virginia rural real estate, the Heimgartner’s homesite is perhaps one of the [...]
Posted by Joe Barnes 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by Joe Barnes on March 22nd, 2010 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, General, Uncategorized
Too often in today’s world our open spaces are either overly programmed or overly protected. Open space ripe for enjoyment are typically reserved or programmed for one thing and one thing only (baseball fields, golf courses, etc.). If they aren’t a single use space, they might be so protected that you can’t do anything on [...]
Posted by Joe Barnes on March 9th, 2010 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, General, Project Updates
This past weekend was one of those weekends that makes me feel blessed and grateful to live in the Charlottesville area — a place with some many interesting things to do and people to hang out with.
I started my weekend off on Friday evening at the opening reception of “Our Water, Our Future” at the [...]
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 Joe Barnes 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 Garden, VA 22959
434-295-3700
info@bundoranfarm.com
Since its [...]
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