2024 BHR Events
April 20, 2024
Assembling a Rainwater Collection System for the Garden
Instructor Helen Allen will teach a one-day workshop on the basics of assembling a rainwater collection system for watering your garden. Helen designed and built her home’s rainwater collection system which is serving her family well.
Participants will actively engage in hooking up two 1200 gallon water tanks to the BHR barn guttering system at the barn. Helen will lead us in assembling this system as a model for what you can do at your home. By the end of the day, BHR should have a functional means of alternative water collection that demonstrates a vital home system needed for self-sufficient living. Each participant will be given a handout on materials needed and useful online and published resources about rainwater collection.
Cost: $40. Lunch provided.
Time: 11:00am – 4:00pm Eastern
Location: The Blue Heron Ranch, 577 Hawkins Ranch Road, Menlo, Georgia
Registration: Contact us HERE
June 15-16, 2024
The Art of Raising Your Kali Energy
Feminist artist Clare Zimmer will lead a two-day workshop on how to use art to raise your Kali energy for whatever challenge you want to take on of concern to you in the world. On Saturday, Clare will lead participants in creating their own Kali headdresses using simple objects provided by the instructor or found by participants while on a hike at the BHR nature sanctuary. On Saturday evening, participants will don their headdresses and dance into their Kali energy.
On Sunday, participants will create paper collage doors on cardboard that they will tear down upon completion in keeping with the words of feminist writer Rebecca Solnit:
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal…To hope is to give yourself to the future – and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”
Cost: $50 includes all tent/car camping fees and Saturday dinner. Participants are responsible for all other meals. Upgrading to an RV site will add $15 per night. Contact us for availability.
Time: The workshop begins at 10am on Saturday with a circle discussion on women’s anger. Camping participants are encouraged to arrive by 5pm Friday, June 14, to set up a campsite the night before the workshop begins. The workshop ends at 5pm Sunday but camping participants are welcome to stay at BHR through 12 noon Monday.
Location: The Blue Heron Ranch, Inc. 577 Hawkins Ranch Road, Menlo, Georgia
Registration: Contact us HERE
October 10-14, 2024
Volunteer Work Week: Building A Cabarn Foundation
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BHR President Lida Simpson will lead volunteer workers on the construction of a 32’x24’ cabarn foundation. This cabarn will house BHR’s Amerilite travel trailer with an adjacent enclosed living area. A cabarn is a combination cabin/rv covered parking area. Once completed, the BHR cabarn will be used for short term camping rentals to raise funds for the nature sanctuary. It will serve as an off-grid prototype of an rv alternative housing model of interest to nomads.
Cost: Free to volunteer workers. BHR will provide dinner on all evenings of the event.
Time: Work days begin at 10am and end at 5pm. Camping participants are encouraged to arrive at BHR by 5pm on October 9 to set up camp. Camping participants may stay at BHR through 12 noon on October 15.
Location: The Blue Heron Ranch, 577 Hawkins Ranch Road, Menlo, Georgia
Registration: Contact us HERE
Continuing Programs
The BHR Gardening Collective
The BHR Gardening Collective meets every Monday at 10am to care for the garden and orchard areas at the nature sanctuary. We share in the produce as the fruits of our labor.
Nomadic BHR members who stay at our RV or camping areas are welcome to participate in gardening on any day and eat from the garden.
The Frontier Food Co-op Buying Club
BHR is registered as a wholesale food buying club with Frontier Co-op, a national member-owned food co-op offering over 7,000 natural food and body care products. You can live anywhere in the world and order online 24/7 at wholesale.frontiercoop.com. There is no minimum dollar amount or quantity required to place an order through Frontier. Shipping is free for orders of $250 or more shipped within the contiguous United States so consider putting together orders from a few friends where you live to save on shipping charges.
If you join our wholesale food buying club and buy through BHR, you will be able to buy items at the listed wholesale price. BHR receives a patronage refund each year based on the dollar amount spent by our buying club members for the year.
This patronage refund represents another way you can support BHR at no added cost to yourself. To join our food buying club, please Contact us HERE
Connecting With Your Inner Equine
The BHR herd of nine horses invites you to join with them on Sundays for two hours of equine interaction. Equine activities include grooming the horses and learning to work with the horses from the ground in supervised round pen training exercises. No riding is involved. This program is for adults ages 18 and over only.
Bring a sack lunch with you and join us for lunch in the barn after each session.
Cost: $10 per session
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm Eastern
Location: The BHR barn at 577 Hawkins Ranch Road, Menlo, GA
To sign up, please Contact us HERE