Tenth Anniversary Celebration & Bloom! Sunday, June 19th
Tryon Life Community Farm has been sowing and harvesting community for 10 fantastic years! The summer solstice is right around the corner! Dads are great! There are so many marvelous reasons to join us on Sunday, June 19th for our Bloom Festival. Let's celebrate!
This year's Bloom will be a Festival of the Collectival: an opportunity to bring your creativity, your performance, your favorite dish, and your loved ones together on the land to share in one anothers' gifts.
From 2 pm to 9 pm, the land will be alive with different activities and offerings, including:
- Medicinal Plant walk
- Theater games!
- Earthen Plaster workshop
- Visiting with the baby goats
- Open mic (share music, theater, jokes, etc!)
- Opportunities to offer and enjoy workshops
- Good food - we'll provide some, and ask you bring a dish to share
- Bonfire and dance party, with Owl Antique and Medicine Web
It's the Collectival that makes the Festival fabulous! Would you like to perform/present/bring something or volunteer? Please contact Brenna at brenna(at)tryonfarm.org and let me know! Check out our Facebook Event, and invite your friends.
Suggested Donation: $10 (or more!) No one turned away for lack of funds ♥
There is no parking at the farm. Please carpool; bike, or catch the continuous shuttle running from Riverdale High School at 9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR 97219.
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Mime, Music and Discovery Summer Camp July 19-22!
Contact Carlos with questions: 925-263-6897
To register, please fill out this form.
*Save the date for Discovery Day, Saturday, July 23rd at 11am. This will be a fun mini-festival day for campers' family and friends! We'll have a potluck lunch, bike-powered blended smoothies with fresh TLC Farm goat milk, and performances by the kids and teachers!
Land tending workparties every other weekend! Next one: THIS SUNDAY (not Sat)
* Workparty this Sunday noon-4 (not Sat, since it will be raining). Contact jenny [at] tryonfarm.org with questions or interest.*
Bring your own lunch/snacks, and please park in our driveway -- not at the top of the road. All skill levels and ages welcomed (kids included!).
For the Facebook event for this workparty, click here.
Tend the land with us! Let's make the Village Green more beautiful and functional!
We are continuing our every-other weekend of land tending workparties. Come help finish making the sauna changing area beautiful, build a new wood shed, attach new drip-thingies to the yurt, wash the outer yurt walls, clean out the outdoor kitchen, fix paths.... and more! There is something for everyone!
See http://tryonfarm.org/share/node/1558 for more context about these workparties. We are hosting them every other weekened until June!
Contact Jenny with questions or to RSVP: jenny@tryonfarm.org, 503 - 548 - 8459
Apple Festival, Saturday October 10th, 2-6 pm
Yes - it's even happening in the rain!!
Join us to celebrate that best of fruits - the APPLE! For our second annual Apple Festival, we'll explore the many wonderful ways to engage with apples - including apple tastings of our many heirloom apple varietals, apple cider pressing, bobbing for apples, an apple pie bake-off and sharing songs to sing to apple trees.
We'll also have a tour of TLC Farm, with a special emphaisis 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, but no one turned away for lack of funds.
As always, there is no onsite parking! Park at Riverdale Highschool, 9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd. (which is 1/2 mile away) and catch our shuttle - which will run every 15 minutes. You're welcome to drop passengers off at TLC Farm and return to Riverdale to park and catch the shuttle.
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Bloom Festival, June 8th, 2-10 pm
Hey! Come Bloom with us!
Tryon Life Community Farm invites you to come and celebrate community in full bloom!
Bloom is a fabulously fun, family-friendly festival filled with live music, games, activities, local organic food, workshops, and performances upon the rolling meadows and blossoming gardens of TLC Farm, nestled up to the magnificent forests of Tryon Creek State Forest. Come lounge in the grass, frolic with the baby goats, and revel in the sunshine!
Bloom is a FUNdraiser for TLC Farm - come ready for generosity!
Friends of the farm will be sprinkled about the land throughout the day offering music, entertainment, workshops, games and crafts. Every nook and cranny of the farm will hold some magic for you, your friends, and your family to enjoy.
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So much wonderful music!
ClownsSnotBombs!
Performing in The Circus Act: "Spaghetti Western"
Also offering face painting, a juice-powered blender, super-hero identity endowments, clowning workshops, merriment, ruckus and shenanigans!
Kaleidoscope Community Yoga: Playful, connective, collaborative creation of human mandalas!
Blissful Ecstatic Dance a' la DJ Carola Mariashi
A relaxing tea lounge where you might whet your whistle, connect with friends, or meet a serendipitous stranger.
Fabulous organic, local food, snacks, and refreshing beverages will be available all day by donation. Cob oven pizzas!!
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Schedule:
2pm: The merriment commences!
Live acoustic music, clown antics, and food.
2pm: Selkies and Cedars on the Butterfly Stage
3pm: Brown Bear Brown Bear on the Butterfly Stage
4pm: Kaleidoscope Yoga
4pm: SaraTone at the bonfire
4pm: Anna Fritz at the Maple Grove
5pm: ClownsSnotBombs Circus in the barn!
6pm: Sol Nectar at the Butterfly Stage
7pm: Dirty Dandelions at the Butterfly Stage
7pm: Liberty in the East Nest
8pm: Song circle in the sauna
8-10pm: Ecstatic Dance party in the yurt!
...and many more emergant activities in all of the Farm's nooks and crannies! Wander the land!
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Suggested Donation: $10-40. All funds go directly into keeping TLC Farm's land and programs open and accessible to the public; we offer everything we do on a gift economy sliding scale and the Bloom fest supports our ability to do so all year round! Please donate generously; no one turned away for lack of funds, ya'll. ♥
Parking is at Riverdale High School, just before the intersection of SW Terwilliger and Boones Ferry Rd. Our Big Blue shuttle van will run all the time, all day long!! There is no on-site parking for the event. Carpooling is highly encouraged. Check the rideshare board to offer and ask for rides! And biking is fun! So is hiking through Tryon Creek State Park from the Nature Center. See our directions page for maps and details.
If you would like to help out, donate food/supplies/time/skills, offer activities, perform, present, or contribute to this event in any way, please e-mail brenna(at)tryonfarm.org. We'll be so excited!
We look forward to seeing your lovely shining face!
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More Blackberry Removal Fun! Saturday, Feb 22
Join in a watershed-wide restoration party! The Tryon Creek Watershed Council is hosting work parties all over the neighborhood, and here at TLC Farm we're still working to eradicate blackberries and plant some native species. Lots of digging in the mud!
Partticipants are encouraged to gather at Riverdale Highschool (9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd) for lunch at 11:30, then carpool to different sites for restoration projects. Please RSVP to the Watershed Council if you want to get fed!
Please dress in outdoor work attire and bring your own digging tools.
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Welcome to Tryon Life Community Farm!
TLC Farm is a seven-acre land project and non-profit event center, surrounded by the beautiful forest of Tryon Creek State Park. Our public Village Green includes a large yurt, outdoor kitchen, tea house, bonfire area, earthen buildings, stage and Portland's first public composting toilets. The majority of the land is open space, including gardens, orchards, chicken and goat areas, and fields. (Houses on the land host independent residential collectives, Cedar Moon and the Sacred Lands Alliance.)
TLC Farm is a unique community-created venue for public and private events -- great for workshops, retreats, weddings, birthdays, meetings, parties and more.
We also teach workshops and lead educational field trips, and host regular workparties and community events.
Our Willow Creek Forest School is an outdoor, place-based farm and forest kindergarten for children ages 3-5, from September to June.
TLC Farm programs and land tending are community created and couldn't happen without volunteers and donations. Thank you for your participation!
Raw goat milk is flowing again!
Hi friends - The goats at Tryon Life Community Farm have given birth, and the milk is flowing and available for sale through Cedar Moon, one of the residential communities on the land.
It works best for us for folks to become weekly purchasers, and pick up the same amount on the same day each week. We sell the milk for $5/qt.
This raw goat milk is an incredibly healthy, and very local, food, and we're excited to share it with you. Please contact Brenna, at brenna@tryonfarm.org, for more information.
Harvest Festival and Skillshare, October 2, noon-midnight
Come celebrate the season by sharing skills, music, food and community for TLC Farm's annual Harvest Festival - so much is happening! Check out the detailed schedule is below.
There will be snacks, treats, and cob oven pizza for purchase, and a silent auction to raise money for the non-profit education work we do, so bring some funds for that!
Transportation (note: no onsite parking, and shuttle stop has changed)
1. Hike or bike to 11640 SW Boones Ferry Road in Portland
2. Take the #12 bus or drive to Barbur Transit Center -- 9750 SW Barbur Blvd -- and be picked up by TLC Farm's biodiesel shuttle running on the half hour and the hour
Cost: Sliding scale $10-20 per adult. Children under 12 are free. Worktrade available if arranged in advance - contact maralena@tryonfarm.org to volunteer.
Schedule of Workshops, Music and More!:
12noon: Traditional Dance Ceremony
12:30: Wool Felting with Samantha Backer of Tinctoria, Making Natural Paint with Joshua Klyber of Living Walls; Omiza River plays at the main stage
1pm: Opening Circle
2pm: Sewing Circle, Food Preservation workshop with Connie Van Dyke, Herbal Medicine with Judy BlueHorse Seklton; Hope Medford drumming workshop at Main Stage
3pm: Water Ceremony with Robert Van Pelt, Tracking with Tony Deis from Trackers NW, Music Jam; Hope Medford and Tre Arrow play at main stage
4pm: Non-visual Plant Identification with Becky Lerner, Winterizing your Beehive with Jackie Friedman;O Horizon plays at main stage
7pm: Meddle plays at the Main Stage
8pm:The Dapper Cadavers play at the Main Stage
9pm:Lynnae Griffin performance at Main Stage
10pm - Midnight:TLC Farm All Stars Music Jam
Any questions? Give us a call (503)245-3847 or email farm@tryonfarm.org!
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