Point people from various working groups come together to share information and make decisions that affect everyone.

Design to facilitate an ecology of thriving, complex connections between groups that use land

Coordinates events that happen on the land, including scheduling, infrastructure needs, music, etc.

Coordination of communication with the public, volunteers, donors, etc.: website, newsletters, mailings, outreach tabling, media, event publicity, etc.

** Physical Ecology meets every Tuesday night, 6:30pm. Contacts: land@tryonfarm.org ; garden@tryonfarm.org **

The work of Physical Ecology is very broad in scope. We are in the business of educating ourselves and the broader community through experimentation with different ways in which humans can integrate themselves into regenerative physical ecologies that are capable of perpetuating themselves over geological timescales. We are responsible for the multitude of ways this vision of sustainability will be physically manifested at TLC Farm. The scope of the work is so broad as to invite subdivision and some definition of structure to allow for easy participation by the large number of people that will be involved in carrying out the work. The various projects we work on fall into several natural divisions. These natural divisions still cover fairly large topics and while members of the physical ecology working group tend to be generally knowledgeable of all the different divisions, they usually specialize in one or two. While we recognize that the many aspects of our work are all interwoven and always encourage cross pollination and learning of new subjects by all, it is often more efficient for a smaller group of knowledgeable people to make decisions and recommendations in their area of expertise. Thus, we recognize these natural divisions as subcommittees of Physical Ecology, and that it is in these subcommittees that the major work of the group should be done. We coordinate our work through a spokescouncil model with the subcommittees meeting as needed, coming together for bi-weekly joint Physical Ecology meetings to check in and make larger decisions or recommendations to Farm Council.

Physical Ecology sub-working groups are as follows: