Bundoran Farm

Located fifteen minutes from Charlottesville, Virginia and the renowned University of Virginia, Bundoran Farm is a preservation-based development where over 90 percent of the 2,300 acres are protected landscape. At the heart of Bundoran Farm concept is a distinctive, economic and social model called "Preservation Development" which uses limited residential development to preserve the character and use of rural landscapes in perpetuity. It has been described as a "three legged stool." Each leg of the stool - agriculture, environment stewardship and land develop - represents a different activity and constituency which bear an equal amount of weight.

The method of preserving the landscape character at Bundoran Farm is simple. Areas of the farm under productive agricultural operations are reserved through an agricultural easement. In return for allowing easements on their property, homeowners enjoy access to nearly the entire farm property and there is virtually no possibility of changing the use of currently productive farmland to one of a non-agricultural use.