Posted by ppeery 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 [...]
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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 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 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 [...]
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Posted by David Hamilton on December 15th, 2009 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, Nature/Environment
…are the laurels you can now garner on the Field Notes blog. In order to see who’s actually reading our blog, and with what urgency, I offer the following challenge to readers: The first person to correctly identify this fairly common Virginia native wildflower wins a brand-spanking new Brunton compass, a reliable guide on even the longest [...]
Posted by David Hamilton on December 1st, 2009 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, General, Nature/Environment
The inaugural event of the Baldwin Center last Spring was a Star Party, jointly hosted with the Astronomical Society. For folks whose interests run to the celestial, Bundoran Farm’s promotion of dark-sky certified lighting is a welcome relief, and the farm’s broad, protected valleys offer a prime location for looking up. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, [...]
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Posted by ppeery on November 29th, 2009 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, General
Last week about 100 kids (Scouts and siblings), 50 to 70 parents attended the launching of 300+ rockets in pastures in front of Fred Scott’s home, Lower Bundoran. Joyous kids were running everywhere to retrieve, reload and re-launch their model rockets. In typical scouting fashion the event was very well run by a scout leaders [...]
Posted by David Hamilton on November 28th, 2009 in Architecture and Design, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General, Green Building, Project Updates
The last few weeks of Baldwin Center construction were pretty hectic. More than once, carpenter Matt Crane and I wondered if we were finishing the building, or vice versa. Followers of our progress will note that blog entries declined precipitously in September, blog frequency being a pretty good indicator of stress. Below are some images of the [...]
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Posted by ppeery on November 17th, 2009 in Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, General
Last week, I met with several members of the Real Estate Club at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business down at Bundoran Farm. The goals of this meeting were to learn more about the hands on practice of community and real estate development and find out more about the Preservation Development approach underway [...]
Posted by Casey Williams on July 21st, 2009 in Agriculture, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, Education and Inspiration, General
Last week residents and friends of Bundoran Farm and the Homestead Preserve joined the Baldwin Center for a study tour of agrarian practices in place at Polyface Farm. On his pasture-base, beyond organic, local-market farm, Joel Salatin raises animals with ethically and ecologically-sound methods that mimic natural movement patterns and preserve the landscape. The self-declared [...]
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