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Open Days at Blue Rock Station:

Tour & High Tea

July 3rd (1:00 pm - 3 pm)

July 24th (1:00 pm - 3 pm)

August 21st (1:00 pm - 3 pm)

September 11th (1:00 pm - 3 pm)

October 16th (1:00 pm - 3 pm)

November 27th (1:00 pm - 3 pm)

Several times a year (about once a month), 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 learn just a bit about these gentle and amazing creatures.
• Learn 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 tour will start promptly at 1 pm - so don’t be late (or you will miss some of Jay’s jokes).  

Changes?  If you haven't visited us this year then you're going to be in for some big surprises.  Join us at the fall open house to tour the Firefly tiny strawbale cabin in the woods, or sit in the sun room and admire the new bottle window.  Spring kid goats should also be  bouncing around and ready to be cuddled.

Extend Your Visit:  New this year is the opportunity to spend the weekend with us, sleeping in the newly completed straw bale cottage and immersing yourself in the lifestyle you may be dreaming about.  Check out our Green Weekend Getaways.

Autumn Colors: Fall is the perfect time to drive the rolling hills of this area and meander along the river on your way to us.  You can enjoy a tour and then the view as you savor a proper cup of British tea.

The cost is $10 per person ($5 for kids under 12).  This includes the tour, tea, and refreshments.  Plan to relax with high tea (proper British tea served in proper British tea cups, and some chocolates and cakes).     

Reservations are not necessary, but if you could warn us you are coming (we would appreciate this if you are bringing a larger group - so we can make sure we can accommodate everyone), 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 2010.  

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.