This newly completed tasting pavilion at Lovingston Winery near Charlottesville, Va elevates the humble structure of a barn to an elegant experience for all occasions. Large rolling barn doors provide flexible access to outdoor areas, a dual fireplace serves both the interior and an exterior seating area, and the exposed framework echoes the architecture of […]
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The Farmhouse project, completed last year at Chickahominy Falls in Virginia, has been awarded Best Community Amenity for 2023 by the Home Builders Association of Virginia. The Farmhouse comprises three structures serving as the community centerpiece: a gathering house, a fitness center, and a pavilion, all surrounding the community pool. Chickahominy Falls is a unique
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Sadly–and with many of you remonstrating over the lack of any recent posts–it has been almost a year since I last wrote. There have been some profound shifts in both my personal and Geobarn landscapes since last summer–many of them good but also difficult. The business is booming with all the Covid postponed projects back
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April 10, 2023: Geobarns has completed a new public library in Meriden, New Hampshire, replacing a smaller structure that had become woefully inadequate for the community’s needs. Here are some highlights of the new Meriden Library building: Valley News – Residents making use of recently opened library in Meriden (vnews.com)
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Green Energy Times, a leading newspaper for advancing green energy practices, has published an article by us on our permaculture project in Italy. Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes planning and management practices that consider the ecosystem as a whole when planning each
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Imagine opening your door to a yard filled with wildflowers and teeming with butterflies and songbirds. Imagine yard maintenance transformed from the joyless tasks of mowing and pruning into a simpler, more rewarding role of nurturing and curation. Imagine creating a landscape design that isn’t just ornamental beauty, but becomes a back yard nature preserve
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It has been well over three months since the last post–and I must say this has been the most intense, difficult, rewarding and challenging time I can remember since beginning Geobarns almost 30 years ago. Part of it is the post pandemic building boom–with its perfect storm of pent up demand, ex-urban migration, less travel
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Two weeks ago on a West coast trip from VA — I had the inestimable privilege to visit the Arrowhead Hill Texas venue we built an hour north of Houston, now up and running, free of the pandemic, and permeated with breathtaking beauty. I only put up 20 pictures here of the 180 or so
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Chickahominy Falls, a planned community built around sustainable agriculture and farm-to-table lifestyle, has been awarded Best Community of the Year for 2020 by the Home Builders Association of Virginia. From Cornerstone Homes website: What started five years ago at Cornerstone Homes with an idea, plenty of research, inspiration and good old-fashioned hard work, reached back
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In the past month we have racked up some miles… journeying to Italy with Casey and David to develop a master site plan for the Rochetta project — including water pathways, vineyard, roads, new and medieval buildings, and development of a permaculture farm. Casey learned to overcome her lack of Italian by using her hands
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The SILO Distillery, maker of farm-to-bottle distilled spirits and ciders in Vermont, has won the prestigious Good Food Award in the Vodkas category for 2020. From the Good Food Foundation’s website: The Good Food Foundation exists to celebrate, connect, empower and leverage the passionate and engaged, yet often overlooked, players in the food system who
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It is the custom at the turning of the year to reflect upon the past year and to plan for the new, and it is with some chagrin that we note that it has been nearly two full years since this blog was last updated. This is both a mark of success and a mark
