Events

Listening Rock Farm

Environmental Sustainability

Events

Listening Rock Farm is available to environmentally-oriented organizations for board meetings, retreats, benefits and educational activities. The main barn is set up as an environmental education center, with an inspirational gallery of eco-heroes, an exhibition of diverse regional sustainable building materials, mechanical systems that use agricultural fuels, and a display of regional Native American prehistoric artifacts. The barn is set up to comfortably accommodate groups of up to 300 people, with a full commercial kitchen to satisfy the culinary needs of a wide range of events.

CARBON NEUTRAL HOUSE
Sinpatch 1, prototype carbon neutral home designed by Allan Shope, will be the newest addition to the farm. A house raising is planned for Monday, June 1.

BIODIESEL PROGRAM
Listening Rock Farm tractors are powered by fully-renewable biodesel fuel. Produced on-site from used cooking oil.

SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY
The forests around Listening Rock are maintained under the Gifford Pinchot 100 Year Sustainable forestry program.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them."

GEN. GORDON SULLIVAN
"Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be."

BUDDHA
"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."