Tryon Life Community Farm

TLC Farm: Evolving Earth's Transition Teams

(Note: Everyone interested in coming to meetings, hearing about volunteer needs, and being involved in our process should join our relatively low-traffic HardCore email list.)

The new world being born lives and works and plays differently. It's co-created, with many kinds of people collaborating in diverse ways. We get things done -- feed and heal and design and learn -- with much less overhead, stress, and control. New ideas, new projects, new patterns, new teams: all actively supported by an ecosystem of change.
With luck and dedication and inspiration, the new world will grow fast enough to absorb much of the collapse of the old. Portland's interweaving movements are a prime opportunity to develop a city-scale working example of this new political economic culture.

TLC Farm is a greenhouse for incubating the people, relationships, skills and teams we need. There are many ways you can participate. Here are a few examples:

• Start doing specific tasks that others have identified: plant perennials, stamp envelopes, put up flyers;
• Take on a role with some amount of training and commitment required: coordinate land materials, host tours, update the web site;
• Get together with like-minded folk and coordinate a major project -- whether a regular happening or a new idea you develop yourselves;
• Become a core organizer participating in our decision-making working groups and spokescouncil.

Excited? Here's the next step: think about what you'd like to do and how you'd like to do it with us. These links may help: example Roles and Tasks; and an outline of our ecology of participation.

Then, contact us by emailing participate@tryonfarm.org (or, second best, call 503-245-3847). We'll set up a time with one of our participation coordinators to have a discussion about how your skills, background, interests, and needs match with ours.

Let's get together!