Posted by ppeery on September 20th, 2011 in General
I just found this video showing the construction progress of the Baldwin Center. It is possible to develop and preserve.
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Albemarle County – A Great Place to Find Great Pizza
Posted by ppeery on August 2nd, 2011 in General
Albemarle County is known world wide for its beautiful countryside and for being the home of Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia. Now it can claim frame as being the home of one of the best pizzas in America. Crozet Pizza, located just a few miles from Bundoran Farm, has always been a well known [...]
Malcolm Hughes Captures Bundoran Farm
Posted by ppeery on July 18th, 2011 in Education and Inspiration, General
Yesterday after church my family and I stopped by Hot Cakes at Barracks Road Shopping Center for lunch. While waiting for our meals to be prepared, I couldn’t help but notice the beautiful and very familiar images hanging on the wall. After a few seconds, it dawned on us that paintings on display were the [...]
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Bundoran Farm – A Beautiful and Bountiful Landscape
Posted by Leif Riddervold on July 12th, 2011 in Agriculture, Baldwin Center for Preservation, Education and Inspiration, General, Nature/Environment
Hello all! I hope that this post finds everyone well and that you are staying cool through this very hot spell! The heat index today will be about 110 degrees, so the summer heat is certainly on. The rains have been plentiful this year at Bundoran Farm, providing good conditions for the pastures and orchards. [...]
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Robb Construction – Bundoran Farm Guild Member
Posted by ppeery on June 28th, 2011 in Architecture and Design, General, Green Building
Matt Robb and his brother, Mark, grew up in this part of the county. This is also where they began building custom homes more than twenty-five years ago. Mark has since moved on to a career in wildlife management, while Matt has continued to maintain the craftsmanship and commitment to people that has made Robb [...]
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Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards Opens Friday, June 17th
Posted by ppeery on June 16th, 2011 in Agriculture, Education and Inspiration, General, Green Building, Project Updates
Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards, situated at Bundoran Farm, opens to the public on Friday, June 17, 2011. Design Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards is posed to to be Central Virginia’s most comprehensive boutique winery and vineyard. Located on Bundoran Farm and just minutes from the University of Virginia and Downtown Charlottesville, Pippin Hill Farm [...]
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Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards – DAYS 127-130: citadels and doors, bulldozer cookie delivery, passing of the keys
Posted by ppeery on May 26th, 2011 in Architecture and Design, Bundoran Farm Events and Occasions, General, Geobarns Updates
For just over half a year now we have built Pippin Hill–and yesterday with the spectacular (and intense) hanging of the grand entry doors, the finishing of the main venue floor and the entry of an army of cleaning and kitchen staff, interior decorators, final inspections and removal of our wood stock and tools from [...]
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Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards – DAY 59: a raw & rocky day
Posted by ppeery on March 1st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
The day started out with a quarter inch of ice on everything that was not hot or moving fast–and all I could think of walking to my ice caked car at six am was how glad I was that I had just hired a young man named William to clean up the site and to [...]
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Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards -DAY 58: going vertical–round two
Posted by ppeery on March 1st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today we divided up into three crews: the roof system on the north porch, setting posts and sisters on the tasting room (notice the double post–a first–for the clear span massive girder over the bar area) and a smaller crew of two new guys, Brian and Mike, who worked on the first set of stairs [...]
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Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards – DAY 56: ramping it up…
Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today we had four full crews running full bore on site–with two more heading our way this weekend. We almost completed the tasting room floor after the morning arrival of the v-groove, finished the enormous hip rafters on the north porch and cut all the rafters for Monday’s installation, got half the veranda insulated and [...]