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Featured on MTV

Our earthship & green living center was featured on MTV (Teen Cribs program) in May 2010 - could Jerry Springer be in our future?.

The Earthship

The Earthship

Visit Ohio's First Earthship...       Construction began in 1996 on our 2,200 sq ft home made of tires, bottles, and assorted salvaged materials.  Designed by famed architect Michael Reynolds, the Earthship at Blue Rock Station was the first built east of the Mississippi.

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Cool Buildings

Cool Buildings

Spend the weekend at Blue Rock Station

Green Living Skill Building Weekends... Spend the weekend at Blue Rock Station learning a number of sustainability skills.  Or simply take a break from the "never stop" world we seem to have created for ourselves.

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Tours

Tours

Tour Ohio's First Earthship

Check out all the Cool Buildings here at Blue Rock Station during your visit.  We have a number of small structures that demonstrate a wide variety of sustainable building techniques.

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Our Products

Our Products

We also offer a wide variety of products and publications - from llama poo plant tea fertilizer, to straw bale needles (essential for constructing your own cottage in the woods) to a wide variety of publications (including electronic versions to save on shipping and the chopping down of trees).

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Critters

Critters

Take a walk with a llama

Take a walk with a llama...  Enjoy a unique quiet afternoon walking the woodlands trails with a quiet companion.  Specific dates are scheduled (see our workshops) or schedule your own for your small group.

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Workshops

Workshops

Best dang workshops in the USA

Attend one of our workshops on straw bale construction, Earthship concepts, cheese making... a wide variety of hands on, fun, energizing workshops designed to help you get more in touch with this world we inhabit.

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2012 Straw Bale Workshops

Join us this summer for one of our three straw bale/rammed earth (Earthship techniques) classes.  This year we will offer these unique educational events in three different formats.

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Our Complete 7-Day Straw Bale Workshop: May 26th - June 1st, 2012

During this 7-day course we will work on two different projects (one we start from scratch - and the "one in the oven" that allows us to do finish work without having to wait for several weeks to allow everything to dry).  This year we will build our most "artistic" building to date (with a living roof).

We will build this two-story "castle" with a rammed earth bag living ramp up to a living roof.  The second story round room will feature cut bottle windows as part of an "observatory."  If you are feeling artistic - this is the project for you.

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If you can't make it for the full week experience - you might wish to get a taste of things at one of our two weekend builds...

The Very Very Basic Straw Bale Weekend Project Build: June 30th - July 1st

The Very Very Basic Straw Bale Weekend Project Build: September 22nd - 23rd

These shorter skill-building workshops are perfect for those folks who are thinking they might like to build a straw bale building one day - but are not yet ready to commit to spending their life’s savings and all their vacation time flying out west somewhere to get the total immersion program.

From  start-to-finish we will learn all the skills necessary to build a small garden outbuilding  - at the same time utilizing all the skills that you would use to build a much larger project.  Sort of a “walk before you run approach.”

 

Tour Blue Rock Station

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Visit Blue Rock Station to get ideas on how to create a sustainable living way of life, or just to marvel at the various construction techniques.  Tour the 2,200 square foot house, currently under construction (always under construction... sigh!) that utilizes tires, cans, old barn wood, bottles and mud to form a home heated by the sun, earth and wood. 

What will you see and do?

The guided tour of Blue Rock Station takes about 90 minutes (a little more depending on how many questions you have).  Check out the Workshops tab (or the Calendar) for scheduled open dates.  Or you can schedule a private tour by giving us a call at 740-674-4300.

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Naturally Healthy Goats Reference Guide Now Available

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Just revised, expanded and republished in April, 2012 - the very popular Naturally Healthy Goats Reference Guide.  Thousands of this handy reference guide have been sold - and now it is new and improved.  The 2012 edition features a useful index, so you can easily find and diagnose any problems in your herd.  Also included are record keeping forms.

The 2012 edition is spiral bound, so it lies flat up in the barn for easy reference.  No more struggling with a book and a sick goat at the same time.  We took care of the book, but sorry, you will still need to handle the goat all by yourself.

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Llama Treks in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains

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Ah, nothing like taking a slow walk through the woodlands at Blue Rock Station - the crunch of leaves below your feet, the smells and sounds and feel of nature.

And what better than to have a quiet gentle companion carrying the load.  Midway through the trek there will be a restful break under thef giant beech trees - a time for sipping a refreshing drink (lemonade in summer, cider in the crisp fall) and watching the llamas show us how to enjoy nature.

Llama treks are scheduled throughout the year (or you can arrange your own trek for groups of 6-10 people).  All treks include high tea and a tour.

Regularly scheduled dates:

  • May 13th - Mother's Day
  • June 17th - Father's Day
  • September 2nd - Labor Day weekend
  • October 22nd - During the heart of fall colors
  • November 11th - Veteran's Day weekend
  • December 1st - Just in time for the holiday season treats

Click Here for more information or to register.