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.
• Check out the plastic bottle greenhouse - the strawbale llama lounge - the vaulted straw bale Intern Chalet - the Dragon's Lair strawbale summer kitchen - our beer bottle cisterns - and more projects in various states of completion happening all the time.
• One of our favorite projects from 2010 is the Rocket Stove.  Check out how this baby works...
  

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 Skill Building Workshops.

The cost is $10 per person ($5 for kids under 12).  Tours take about 90 minutes to 2 hours and include refreshments.  Plan to relax with high tea (proper British tea served in proper British tea cups, and some chocolates and cakes).

Open day tours are limited to 40 people.  Please RSVP to ensure you will be able to go on the tour.

2012 Open Days: April 21st May 13th June 16th July 21st August 18th September 1st October 20th November 24th

Click here to RSVP or call us at 740-674-4300 Or to really ensure your spot, you could pre-pay Tour Date April 21st - Earthday May 13th - Mother's Day June 16th July 21st August 18th Sept 1st October 20th - Harvest Time Nov 24th - Holiday

Reservations are not necessary (nor is it necessary to prepay, but nice), but if you could warn us you are coming (we would appreciate this especially 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