It's time for our annual festival celebrating all things apple as we also welcome the autumn equinox.
Join us on September 22nd for an afternoon of appley fun, including:
It's a lot of fun for the whole family! Sliding scale donation $10-20, kids 12 and under get in free.
We hope to see you here! As always, parking in limited so please bike, bus and carpool if at all possible.
Get Involved with TLC Farm!
We're looking for volunteers to connect with all our programs: tending the land, leading field trips, planning workshops, hosting events and more!
On Saturday, August 31, from 4-6 pm come for a tour of the farm and a chance to plug into our volunteer-led programs, and stay for our monthly potluck.
Contact Lindsey, our Engagement Coordinator, at engagement@tryonfarm.org for more information or call us at 503-245-3847.
Join us for our next monthly TLC Farm Community Potluck!
We’ll gather in the Outdoor Kitchen at 6 pm. We'll eat outside around the picnic tables and have plenty of time to share thoughts & stories and wander around the land. Please bring food and/or drink to share if you are able and we’ll provide dishes and utensils.
This month's potluck will be followed by a community song circle, starting around 7:30 pm. Bring a song to share, or just your voice.
TLC Farm hosts community potlucks on the last Saturday of each month.
We look forward to sharing food, community with you!
TLC Farm hosted many happenings this year and looks forward to many more in 2024!
A place to Gather
Monthly movie nights
Potlucks and song circles
Monthly anti-social socials
Hosting meetings and conversations: Oregon Humanities, Jewish Voice for Peace, an evening with legendary activist Ben Morea, Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance
A place to Learn
Willow Creek Forest School – pre-school & summer camps
TLC Farm’s Hands-on outdoor education program hosted field trips from Catlin Gabel School, Sabin School, Audubon Summer Camps, Renaissance Arts School, Carpe Diem, University if Portland, Lewis & Clark College, Girl Scout troops and more!
Workshops on native food sovereignty and basket making
Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine classroom
A place to Celebrate
Annual Apple Fest – with over 200 people!
Tu B’shvat Seders with Havurah Shalom and Forest Defenders
Seven birthday parties – from one year old to 45
A place to Grow
Many work parties focused on removing invasive species and tending the ecosystem. Partners included Tryon Creek Watershed Council, Village Building Convergence, and Connecting Canopies, and the awesome goat herd!
And, if you prefer a month by month breakdown:
February: Tu B'shvat Seder, Land tending workparty
March: Watershed-wide Restoration Day, Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine starts its eight-month program, baby goats born
May: Potluck & Song circle, Fry Bread & First Foods event; Educational tour and service projects with students from Carpe Diem, Catlin Gabel & Sabin schools.
June: T-Whale deconstruction work parties; Village Building Convergence restoration project, TLC Farm tour & volunteer orientation, educational tour and service projects with Renaissance Arts school students, conversation with Ben Morea
July: Willow Creek Forest School summer camps; Get Plastered: Natural building work party; Land tending work parties, Audubon farm & forest camp; Pride movie night.
August: 3 Land tending work parties; Farm tour & volunteer service project; Apple cider pressing; Hoot movie night.
September: Willow Creek Forest School pre-school starts; Movement movie night for social justice.
October: Apple Festival! Scout field trip and service project. No Ivy Day!
November: Community potluck; Invasive species identification, clearing, and basket weaving work party!
December: Another invasive species clearing & basket weaving work party!
In a time where the environment is rapidly shifting due to climate change, now more than ever, it's important to support our ecosystems. Biodiversity builds resilience. The more biodiversity there is, the more resilient an ecosystem. Invasive species take over and reduce the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
At TLC Farm, we are actively working to remove invasive species and replant native species to increase the biodiversity on the land. Please come help us in this project series! There will be many work parties with this focus, as invasive species are stubborn and aggressive, which requires our persistence to remove them.
No experience necessary. This work will require light to medium physical labor and tasks can be adjusted to fit your physical abilities. The projects will include path clearing and/or invasive species removal, depending on the day and current needs of the land.
Tools, gloves, and snacks will be provided, but if you have tools you like to use, please bring them! We will meet in the Village Green area by the outdoor kitchen, yurt, and composting toilets.
If you plan to come, please RSVP at engagement@tryonfarm.org
(If you like to live spur of the moment, you can come without an rsvp but it really helps us to get a headcount!)
Save the date for our next Land Tending work parties:
Wednesday, August 2 from 10 am-1 pm and
Saturday, August 12 from 3-6 pm.
We're in the midst of a campaign to grow our Friends of the Farm - the committed, generous, creative people who sustain TLC Farm through monthly donations - with a goal of rasing $100 more per month. This could look like 10 people giving $10 per month, or 4 people giving $25, or all the other possible combinations!
TLC Farm is committed to keeping our land and programs econimically accessible, which means our programs are offered on a sliding scale and we work to make use of the land available to all groups, regardless of ability to pay. Our generous donors help make this approach possible. Become a Friend of the Farm today!
It makes a difference to become a Friend of the Farm!
Stability: Our program income and other fundraising is cyclical, ebbing and flowing throughout the year; regular contributions from Friends provide a reliable source of income each month to meet our financial obligations.
Joy: It feels great to give, and it feels great to receive – generosity makes everyone involved happier.
Leverage: Honestly, it looks good to foundations and major donors to have a solid base of regular financial supporters. Providing stability helps us obtain larger donations.
Demonstration of the Grassroots: As witnessed with the “Save the Farm” campaign, thousands of people each giving what they can really does add up to significant numbers. TLC Farm is an inspiring demonstration of the spirit of community, part of which is regular giving.
Help us meet our goal: become a Friend of the Farm and THANKS!
Join us to celebrate that best of fruits - the APPLE!
For our fourth annual Apple Festival, we'll explore many wonderful ways to engage with apples - including:
We'll also have a tour of TLC Farm, with a special emphasis on the orchard, and music and activities for all.
This is a fundraiser for TLC Farm's educational programs with a suggested donation of $10-20, but no one turned away for lack of funds (kids are free!).
As always, there is no onsite parking! Ride your bike or organize carpools and catch the shuttle at Riverdale High School (9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd.)
Willow Creek Forest School is TLC Farm's outdoor, place-based preschool for children 3-5 years old.
Children enjoy a consistent daily rhythm in which they can allow their imaginations to blossom and be immersed in the magic of the forest, while learning to be good stewards to the land and each other. The flow of the day includes: crafts, homesteading skills, plant medicine-making, snack time provided by the school (including bread baked in the cob oven!), circle time, plenty of time in the forest and special festival days – all guided by songs and stories inspired by the changing seasons on the land.
School runs for 9 months, Tuesday-Thursday from 9:30am-1:30pm, with an option to add aftercare each day until 3:00. Visit WillowCreekForestSchool.org for more information and to enroll.
About Teacher Hindi: Hindi has been working with children in various settings for 20 years, and has been living on the land at TLC Farm for two years. For the past two years, she worked with Montessori preschool programs while dreaming about starting her own program. She loves sharing this magical land with children!
Tryon Life Community Farm is hosting its annual spring festival, Bloom, and we've got a great schedule of events for this year:
**ACTIVITIES***
Live Music & Dance:
2 pm: Aztec Dancers
2:30: CypherCure: earth-inspired hip hop
3:45: Medicine Web, etheric soulfilled harmony
5:00: C Wood, Independent music with folk roots
6:30: SaraTone, New Roots Music
8-11:00: Silent Dance Party (see below for details)
Workshops:
2-4:30: Natural Building & Earthen Plaster
3-4: Tending fruit trees
4:30-5:30: Medicinal Plant Walk
Ongoing activities:
Facepainting
Technical Tree Climbing with Tree Climbing Cascadia
Wander around the land and visit the goats!
Silent Dance party from 8pm-11pm! A new way to turn up the volume and raise the roof without disturbing the blissful peace of the forest at sundown. DJ sets will be broadcast over radio, so dancers can rockout on headphones (available @Bloom).
We'll also be sharing something that's been blooming strongly here: white folks and people of color working together to decolonize ourselves and our relationships to the land--and to each other. We're excited to support a POC-only space at this event for the first time, and to invite other white Bloomers to engage in thoughtful conversations and share skills for decentering whiteness.
We'll provide organic food and drink (by donation) and invite dishes and snacks to share.
This is a FUNdraiser for TLC Farm! Suggested donation of $10-20 per adult (kids are free!)
As always, we have NO ON SITE PARKING. We'll be running a shuttle Riverdale High School, 9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR 97219. Coordinate rideshares at: https://tryonfarm.org/share/rideshare
Volunteer Opportunities: Bring your skills and and passions and let us know if you would like to offer something at the event. Volunteer to help us put on this event! Email brenna@tryonfarm.org to see how you can get involved.
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