Women Build - Learning Green Living Together

Event Details

Mornings will be spent learning Blue Rock Station sustainable building techniques such as - how to create a small garden structure: creating foundations out of tires, building with straw bales, plastering with clay and much more. You?ll get your daily exercise and feel good about what you learn.A relaxing lunch will follow, vegetarian and hearty, all ingredients locally grown or produced - followed with a proper cup of tea and dessert served on vintage English fine china. The cook receives rave reviews for her meals so don?t be scared off by ?vegetarian?. Each afternoon we will hit the road, visiting local craftsmen and artisans who will teach us some of the basics of - natural fiber weaving, welding & blacksmithing, herbal lotion-making, basic carpentry, pressure point healing, solar cooking and much more.Then in the evening, back to Blue Rock Station to learn how to cook quick healthy meals from locally grown produce with Indian, down home, vegetarian, picnic and Lebanese as the themes. And perhaps we?ll sit around an open fire and watch the sun set across the valley.