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Baldwin Center for Preservation Development Under Construction at Bundoran Farm
Anne Hooff, 4/30/2009
Email: info@bundoranfarm.com
Website: http://www.bundoranfarm.com
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Charlottesville, Virginia – April 30, 2009 – Edge Valley Preservation, LLC, the management and development team for Bundoran Farm located in Albemarle County, Virginia, celebrated the the groundbreaking today of The Baldwin Center for Preservation Development. The Baldwin Center will house a non-profit foundation with the mission to showcase innovative practices in rural land use planning and development, agricultural preservation, and environmental stewardship. The facility is located at Bundoran Farm on Edge Valley Road and provides a gathering place for local and farm related concerns, educational workshops and field trips. The surrounding acreage will be dedicated to agricultural research, demonstrations, and living laboratories supporting preservation, education and outreach. The Baldwin Center is slated to open in Fall 2009 and will host the center’s inaugural symposium featuring the topic of ‘residential development and the working landscape’. The Baldwin Center is named for the founder of Qroe Farm Preservation Development and original partner of Bundoran Farm, the late
Robert Baldwin, Sr.
About Bundoran Farm
Located just 15 minutes from Charlottesville and the renowned University of Virginia, the 2,300 acres of Bundoran Farm are nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Two ponds provide a place for quiet reflection or fishing, farm buildings and cottages dot the landscape, framing views that typify the slower pace and natural beauty of the Albemarle County lifestyle. This land remains intact today because of a legacy of family stewardship, a tradition of care that will continue for generations to come. Bundoran Farm is not just a place of rare visual beauty. It is a thriving landscape of cattle and orchards - a place where deer, fish and birds find
quiet refuge. A place where a network of over fifteen miles of walking and riding trails winds amongst mature Piedmont forest species. And where, most importantly, all of this will remain intact for future generations. In fact, 90 percent of Bundoran Farm will remain untouched by residential development thanks to the careful process of Preservation Development.
About Preservation Development
Bundoran Farm is the location of a new kind of rural community. At the heart of this community is a new economic, environmental and social way of life called Preservation Development. This innovative concept of land preservation, combined with extremely limited residential development, has been practiced and refined over thirty years. In the case of Bundoran Farm, these principles will result in a low-density community of approximately one hundred homesites, with the great majority of the farm’s acreage put under a proven system of easements and deed restrictions to ensure the beauty, character and vitality of this land in perpetuity. With the purchase of their individual homesites, owners enjoy the expansive acreage and beauty of the entire working farm and forest. They can experience the benefits of living on a large farm without the investment of time and management such a parcel would typically require.
About Geobarns
Geobarns was founded by George Abetti as an individually owned enterprise dedicated to building quality barn structures for any use the client wishes. As creator and inventor of the Geobarn construction system, George Abetti uses a unique architectural engineering style which includes a modified post and design coupled with diagonal framing and free span buttress arched trusses.
Visit the Bundoran Farm website at www.bundoranfarm.com
Please refer all press inquiries to Anne Hooff, Payne, Ross & Associates at
434-977-7607 or 996-4553
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