TLC FARM VBC7 Village Green integration projects
Overview

Tryon Life Community Farm is a non-profit sustainability education and demonstration center on 7-acres in SW Portland on the edge of Tryon Creek State Park. We have an open sloping meadow gathering space we call the Village Green which is surrounded by various components of our site like the cob sauna, the T-Whale, the Outdoor Kitchen, a firepit, the composting toilet outhouse building, a few materials sites and more. We want to integrate this area to make the village green truly inspiring and worthy of the name of Community Gathering Space! To do this we have a number of projects that will help make the elements in this space feel more connected and integrated with each other, including moving pathways, digging swales to deal with rainwater and to irrigate new landscaping/garden areas, putting in a rainwater catchment system, building the bench on a rocket stove heated cob bench, and planting a fruit tree / food forest orchard. Come help to make the Village Green truly alive!

Schedule

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Workparties 10am-4:30pm daily. Lunch provided, bring snacks.
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shuttle will run from city repair to the farm at 9:30-9:45am and leave the farm around 4:30pm returning to City Repair. (please check in at CR headquarters by 9:30 and tell them you want the TLC Farm shuttle)
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We have very limited parking so we encourage biking, bussing, shuttling, and carpooling.

19 Saturday

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RAINWATER CATCHMENT
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SHEET MULCHING NEW BEDS
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BLACKBERRY REMOVAL BELOW SAUNA

20 Sunday

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SHEET MULCHING NEW BEDS
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FOUNDATION FOR COB BENCH
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BLACKBERRY REMOVAL BELOW SAUNA

21 Monday

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10am-1pm Swale Workshop with Greywater Guerrillas
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INSTALLING SWALES
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SHEET MULCHING NEW BEDS

22 Tuesday

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INSTALLING SWALES
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SHEET MULCHING NEW BEDS
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PATH CREATION / RELOCATION
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2-3:30P VILLAGE HOME homeschool group (10-14 year olds)

23 Wednesday

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Pizza for lunch - grain grinding for Cedarwood
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COB ROCKET STOVE BENCH
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PATH CREATION / RELOCATION
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SHEET MULCHING NEW BEDS
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9:30A-12:30P Cedarwood Waldorf School 3rd grade - grain grinding → pizza
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STEP 3-4:30
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2-4pm Weeding for Soil Fertility Workshop with Elizabeth Fox

24 Thursday

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COB ROCKET STOVE BENCH
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MOVE FIREPIT
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10:30-2:00 3-5th grade Trillium Charter School.
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2:15-3:45PM Pacific Crest Community School – high schoolers

25 Friday

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10am Fruit Tree Planting & Guild Workshop with California fruit tree group + Marisha Auerbach
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FRUIT TREE & UNDERSTORY PLANTING
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9am-3pm PCC first-year biology class

26 Saturday

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RAINWATER CATCHMENT
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COB ROCKET STOVE BENCH WORK
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PATH CREATION / RELOCATION

27 Sunday

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COB ROCKET BENCH FINISH WORK
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PATH CREATION / RELOCATION
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Hands-On Portland Volunteer Day