Schedule:

- - Check the calendar for specific events!
  - ANY DAY: Host your own event! See here for details.
  Saturday: Open to the public daytime to drop in, bring a picnic, take a self-guided tour, etc.
  Landwork workparties 4th Saturdays. Call ahead with questions: 503.245.3847
Sunday: Open to the public daytime to drop in, bring a picnic, take a self-guided tour, etc.
Skillshares and workparties some Sundays. Call ahead with questions: 503.245.3847
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Scheduled class visits and events. Open to the public after 3pm until dark to enjoy the land.
Wednesday: Scheduled class visits and events. Open to the public after 3pm until dark to enjoy the land.
Thursday: Scheduled class visits and events. Open to the public after 3pm until dark to enjoy the land.
Friday: Open to the public daytime to drop in, bring a picnic, take a self-guided tour, etc.
SOME DAYS will be closed for private events. Check the calendar!

The Land is Here for you

This is a strange and scary time. Our daily rhythms have changed and keep changing becasue of COVID-19. We are worried for our friends, families, and for all those we don't know who may be struggling with illness or economic hardship. Our sources of comfort that are rooted in community & congregation are not available. But, the land is here for you.

Outside, under the trees, in the park, and here at Tryon Life Community Farm, the land still welcomes us to walk, observe, listen, and to regain our emotional footing in an unstable time. While we are not planning any events this month, TLC Farm folks invite you to come walk the land, visit the goats (babies are due next week!), duck into Tryon Creek State Park to enjoy the blooming trilliums, and take a deep breath.

There is plenty of space here that folks can keep appropriate distance (we'll wave at each other across the garden!) and plenty of life here to remind us that we're not alone in this crisis. The beautiful land, in all its abundance, is sharing comfort and connection with us. Drop in for a visit from 10am - 6pm, any day but Monday.

Sending love, care and community your way,
Brenna, and the rest of the folk at TLC Farm

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Nature Immersion Summer Camps!

	Nature immersion Summer Camps 2020

	July 20-24 Crafty Kids

	July 27-31 Making Plant Medicine

	Aug 3-7 Natural Science

	Aug 10-14 Water, Water Everywhere

	All weeks are for ages 3-7, 9:30am-2:30pm, $300 per week

	To Register please fill out this online form. 

	If you have any questions, please Contact Us.

	About our unique nature-immersion summer camps:

	Lead by professional teachers on the land at TLC Farm and in the surrounding forest of Tryon Creek State Park, each week children participate in exciting nature-based crafts and empowering activities such as gardening, food harvesting & preservation, cooking, herbal medicine making, crafting, natural building and woodworking. There is also time each day to visit the goats and chickens, and explore the beautiful surrounding forest. We provide a nutritious, organic snack each day and campers bring a lunch. Please read our Camp Details Page for more information before you register.

	To register, send us a message from our contact page.  Your child’s spot will be held once we receive your payment. 

	All weeks of camp are Monday through Friday from 9:30am to 2:30pm, are open to 3-7 year olds, and cost $300.

Week 1: Crafty Kids

July 20th-24th

9:30am-2:30pm ages 3-7

Sometimes the best materials to make art are right where you are! We will dig for clay to make pots to bake in our cob oven, gather ivy and other plants for weaving, press flowers for collages and more. Children will be empowered to create beautiful things from natural objects they gather themselves. Each day will include time for exploring the forest, playing games and singing songs in between creations.

Register Here.

Week 2: Plant Medicine

July 27th-31st

9:30am-2:30pm ages 3-7

Medicine is all around us! This week we will harvest plants from the farm and forest to make natural remedies for scratches, belly aches and colds to take home. Children learn the healing power of plants through story, song and hands-on work in between visits to the forest to play and explore.

Register Here.

Week 3: Exploratory Scientists

August 3rd-7th

9:30am-2:30pm ages 3-7

Does your child love to discover new things about the world? In this week long camp, we will look at the world through the eyes of scientists. We will investigate natural phenomenon, learn about the scientific method and conduct experiments all in a forest setting. Experiments will involve natural materials such as "can you make an elastic band from a plant?"

Register Here.

Week 4: Water, Water Everywhere

August 10th-14th

9:30am-2:30pm ages 3-7

Join us for a fun filled week with a focus on water. We will explore the water cycle, learn about our watershed, the effects of water on the land, get up close with how a stream works and have time for water play each day!

Register Here.

Shuttle from New Seasons

Sun, 12/08/2019 - 7:54pm — Anonymous

Offering or Requesting?:

Offered

Departure time:

Sat, 12/14/2019 - 11:50am

Meetup location:

New Seasons Market 3 Monroe Pkwy, Lake Oswego, OR 97035

Spaces:

Contact details and notes:

Shuttle will be leaving New Seasons and heading to Tryon every 15-20 minutes!

Monthly Movie Night

When:

Nov 7 2019 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Our second movie night of the season will feature Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail! Yay ! Join in community revelry in TLC Farm's war m and cozy yurt and bring friends! Please also con sider bringing your own pillow or blanket -- we ha ve a limited pile and the more the merrier. And ifyou want, leave them in the yurt as a donation t o the space (only clean and cat free pillows/blank ets please!!). We will provide Goco (goat mil k hot chocolate), popcorn and other tasty treats.We ask for donations to support the ongoing acces sibility of TLC Farm's event center. This is a NOTAFLOF event -- No One Turned Away For Lack ofFunds.

Fundraiser

Monthly Potluck and Story Sharing from The Land

When:

Nov 1 2019 - 6:00pm

It is again time to come together around the fire or in the yurt (weather dependent) to feast each o ther with food and stories from the places that su stain us. Come ready to listen and speak your ex periences with the more-than-human (including huma n) world. This month, to honor cross-cultu ral traditions of connecting with those who have p assed, we invite the theme of ANCESTORS. Bring food or drink that your ancestors or those from yo ur ethnic tradition would enjoy. Bring pictures , objects, offerings to put on the non-denominati onal alter. Bring stories to tell of your ancest ors. All ages, abilities, ethnic backgrounds, g enders, sexual orientations, bodies, and well-a ncestors welcome! We can't wait to see you.

Meeting

Anti Opression Resources

Resources for Anti-Opression and Cultural Competency

This is a work in progress document to support our work with Shilo George...

Vinnie's Recommendations:

“White Fragility” and “What Does It Mean to Be White” by Robin DiAngelo. Also just searching podcast interviews with her is a recommended.

“Seeing White” a season on the podcast “Scene on Radio” tells origins and formative moment in the history of the creation and evolution of whiteness

“Men” also a season from Scene on Radio. Particularly episode 4 on intersection of racism and sexism but really the whole thing is worth a check out.

“The Me and White Supremacy workbook” by Layla Saad. I haven’t gotten very far into this yet but I trust the creator. It is a workbook and can be downloaded free online. Big labor and gift from black woman of color.

Muireall's recommendations:

-Race in North America by Audrey Smedley (this is from an anthropological epistemology but the writing is accessible. Smedley is a Black anthropologist and I think this is one of the most important books about race in the anglo-centric world ever written. It's a chronological account of how the phenomenon of race was constructed by Europeans and why. there are lots of pictures! they're not all nice pictures)

- An Indigenous Peoples' History, ofc

-The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin (oldie but goodie)

-Anything by Angela Davis, bell hooks, Audrey lorde

-Let the Fire Burn. (a documentary about the MOVE house and that one time in he 80s when Philly bombed an entire neighborhood to kill some radical Black people and their children)

-From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i, by Haunani-Kay Trask. (she also wrote Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory, which I want to read but haven't yet). Including this because the information is very relevant to most places than have been colonized by Britain and America.

On that note, if there are any authors indigenous to this area who are writing about sovereignty I would love to be reading their work! anyone know of anything?

- there's an incredible album called Our Native Daughters that was made by southern Black feminist musicians. They took historical primary source accounts of the experiences of Black people in the south and turned them into contemporary but rootsy music. It's extremely good and nuanced and moving and tells some stories about incomprehensible brutality and also about deep resilience. and I like the way it conveys the full reality of all this shit through art and not academia speak. like, truly all the trigger warnings for that one though.

Buffy saint Marie also weaves a lot of indigdnous oral history into her (*very* 80s) music. Especially "bury my heart at wounded knee"

-Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies-Seth Holmes (a piece of medical anthropology about Migrant Farmworkers and Capitalism. very accessible ethnography, i.e. much more than most)

-Climbing Poetree! more oral history.

- An Indigenous Peoples' History, ofc

-The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin (oldie but goodie)

-Anything by Angela Davis, bell hooks, Audrey lorde

-Let the Fire Burn. (a documentary about the MOVE house and that one time in he 80s when Philly bombed an entire neighborhood to kill some radical Black people and their children)

On that note, if there are any authors indigenous to this area who are writing about sovereignty I would love to be reading their work! anyone know of anything?

Buffy saint Marie also weaves a lot of indigdnous oral history into her (*very* 80s) music. Especially "bury my heart at wounded knee"

Jenny's recommendation:

- Robin DiAngelo's website has a lot of resources

- she also has some other documents to add.

6th Annual Apple Fest

When:

Sep 21 2019 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

This event is a kid-friendly apple-themed outdoor event. Enjoy apple tastings of our many heirloom v arieties, have fun with the apple cider press, a pple-themed cocktails, apple pie and dessert cont est (bring your best pie!), and tour the orchard and farm. There will be games, music, community , fun, and vendors! This is a fundraiser eve nt for TLC Farm's educational programs with asuggested donation of $10-20, but no one will beturned away for lack of funds. The location of th e event is at 11640 SW Boones Ferry Rd, Portland , OR 97219. There is no onsite parking. Ride your bike or organize carpools and catch the shuttle atRiverdale High School, 9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd.More information at www.tryonfarm.org.