Tryon Life Community Farm

Upcoming Events

Artist’s Alchemy; Textile Upcycling
May 13th, 2025
A two part skillshares to upcycle tshirts into sewable patches and a history (more...)

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!

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Honey Wine Making

Mon, 10/08/2007 - 5:10pm — jennyleis

Just a few yards away from the earthen plaster workparty, Gretchen was teaching 15 people about making your own honey wine!

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I love Saturdays at TLC Farm! This past Saturnday, a bunch of us gathered in the outdoor kitchen to put earthen plaster on the cob bench under the nearby cedar tree. With the help of some Lewis and Clark students and other new Farm friends, we sifted clay, mixed it with sand, straw and water, and gently applied the muddy plaster to protect our nice bench.

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Chop Wood

Mon, 10/08/2007 - 5:08pm — jennyleis

The little sayings about this one are true:

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.

Wood will warm you three times: once gathering, once chopping and once burning your fire.

Chopping wood is a wonderful form of daily meditation and connection to the mundane-but-profound experience of taking care of one’s needs. As someone who is usually part of the office-type activities at TLC Farm, I must admit that chopping wood is now one of the highlights of my week, and a nice way to warm up. Give thanks for the trees!

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LIFE AT CEDAR MOON: Salmon harvest

Mon, 10/08/2007 - 5:06pm — jennyleis

* Note: Cedar Moon is the residential intentional community at TLC Farm and a demonstration of high-density, consensus-based cooperative living. *

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TLC Farm as a community resource

Mon, 10/08/2007 - 4:59pm — jennyleis

Guthrie: yum!A few days ago, as we were working on building benches for a new meditation area, a nice woman walked down the driveway with a bucket of grapes. “I thought you might be able to use these,” she offered as she explained that we would need to go find more containers to receive her load of grapes.

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Bountiful Harvest

Mon, 10/08/2007 - 3:51pm — jennyleis

Two hundred pounds of tomatoes soon to be canned

Ah, the fall, when we get to enjoy harvests of all types. Here at TLC Farm, we like to process, enjoy and save food as much as possible. Here are a few snapshots from recent weeks:

Apple cider making, from hundreds of pounds of apples that a few Farmies picked at a local organic orchard. Yummy!

Tomatoes! We picked and then canned about 220 pounds of heirloom, organic tomatoes at our friend's farm! (We ate all of our own ripe tomatoes, and are making fried green tomatoes from the unripe ones.)