News of Twin Oaks
As of 2016 our news stories are now appearing only on our public Facebook page.
It's not what you think! Our water well has been losing capacity--our response to this was to have our well "hydro-fractured."
After many years and much discussion with our neighbors, the highway department "paved" the road in front of our property.
We had another visit from DMME geologists to our old "gold mine." This time the focus of the visit was mine safety and reclamation. We got confirmation that the dug up ground was indeed an gold mining site. Keenan showed them around and then posted a paper on our Opinions and Ideas board about the posibility of covering the dug up area for safety reasons. Read on to see the complete text of the paper.
The roof has been in poor shape for a long time, and recently has been leaking badly.
Kevin, Red and Zoe
The latest issue of our Leaves newsletter has been published in PDF format
and will shortly be sent by email to subscribers.
Geologists visit Twin Oaks as follow-up to last August's big earthquake.
Geologists from the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy did some exploration of our property and then Amy Gilmer from DMME came out to do an evening slideshow and talk
Coming soon to our tofu dairy-factory.
This process equipment is undergoing final testing at our equipment supplier's location in this photo.
We celebrated our 45th year on the weekend of June 9 with a very full schedule of activities.