Visit some good friends of Blue Rock Station...

Open Day at Blue Rock Station

June 20th   (1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)

Several times a year, we open Blue Rock Station for individual tours (normally you would need to arrange to tour in a group.  

On the above dates and times, we will give a 2-hour tour (sounds a bit like Gilligan’s Island) beginning at 1 p.m.  The tour will start promptly on time - so don’t be late.  

Tour Blue Rock Station:  

We will...

• Tour the Earthship - a 2,200 sq. ft. home made of tires, cans, bottles, salvaged lumber, mud, sand, sweat and tears.  Annie & Jay will explain the various construction techniques and how the building uses the earth and sun to provide a comfortable place to live.
• Explore the vaulted Straw Bale “Chicken Chalet”.  This building houses our rare breed chickens (you may even get a chance to feed them).  It is built with a pounded tire foundation, straw bale walls, beer bottle front and back walls and a mud plaster finish.
• Learn about rare breed chickens.  We will discuss the changes in agriculture in America that have lead to the near extinction of most of the most common and popular farm animals of our recent past.
• Meet Eleonore and her kids, our milk goat - and discuss homestead milk production, making cheese, yogurt and other healthy and natural products.
• Say hello to the llamas and perhaps take one or two for a walk.  Throughout the day we harness up the llamas and let our visitors take them for a little stroll as we walk the grounds of Blue Rock Station.
• Learn a bit about natural gardening.  We are exploring a number of creative (and common sense) ways of gardening here at  Blue Rock Station.  Learn to work with nature, not against it.  Also, discover how we keep our plants growing year-round in our wetlands and pop-bottle greenhouse.
• Rediscover or see for the first time some neat, good old common sense stuff like composting, cooking in a solar oven, weaving fences from brush, making maple syrup... or whatever other else takes our fancy that we happen to be doing at the time.

The cost is $5 per person or $20 for a family of five or more for this event.   Cookies and tea will be available so you can relax and sit a spell.   Reservations are not necessary, but if you want to warn us you are coming (we would appreciate this if you are bringing a larger group - so we can make sure we can accommodated folks), give us a call  at (740) 674-4300, e-mail annie@bluerockstation.com

Please Note!

Due to overwhelming demand and our desire to have a life... Individual tours of Blue Rock Station have been severely curtailed during 2009.  

So if you wish to tour the Earthship and all the cool things at Blue Rock Station - this may be your only chance - other than participating in a group tour or attending one of our workshops.