Garden in July

Garden in July

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Kids' Rhythm and Drum Camp

Kids' Rhythm and Drum Camp

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Kids' Rhythm and Drum Camp: Aug 7-11

When: 
Aug 7 2007 - 1:00pm - Aug 11 2007 - 4:00pm
Kids' Rhythm and Drum Camp

We had a blast last year so we're doing it again! Teachers Tynan Pierce and Hope Medford are facilitating another week long children's rhythm camp filled with fun explorations of sound, rhythm games and techniques on hand instruments in the natural, outdoor setting of Tryon Life Community Farm. All instruments are provided and beginners encouraged!

Creating content on this site

Hi folks! In a few simple steps, this guide will show you how to submit new content for the site.

  1. If you haven't yet, create an account on this system. Go to the "Login" block beneath the main menu on the left, and click "create account". Fill out the form, and a password will be sent to your email.
  2. Email web@tryonfarm.org (or another administrator) and ask for either "participant" or "editor" permissions. The latter will allow you to edit other people's content, and will require additional training; but we're always looking for more editors!
  3. Once you have the correct permissions, log in!
  4. Click "Create Content" on the Navigation menu underneath your login id.
  5. Choose what type of content you'd like to create. Use a "Page" for a fixed part of the site: information about a program or a part of the land, for example. Use a "Story" for something time-sensitive, like an update that will expire. Use "Happening" for something that happens on a specific date (or dates): gatherings, meetings, workshops, celebrations, ceremonies, etc. Use "Image" to upload a new image, "Forum" to create a new topic, "Link" to give some details to a useful reference site.
  6. Select appropriate tags or "categories" for your content. If it's linked to a specific working group, indicate as much. If it should display on one of the top menu aggregation pages, add the appropriate "Site" category. And add any other terms that seem relevant to you under "General", separated by commas.
  7. Type in the content.
  8. Note that you can select the kind of "input format": I recommend the default unless you have some skill with HTML. If you don't feel comfortable with even the basic syntax, but still want to make your page pretty, click "enable rich text" to enter a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor.
  9. Also note that you can attach an image, either by selecting one that already exists or uploading a new one. Don't worry about the file size, as long as it's not more than 1MB; it'll be scaled automatically. For UPDATES that are intended for the front page, please make sure you add an image.
  10. You can add related links to your page, using the links manager. Related links are great, and help make this a more powerful resource!
  11. And finally, you can attach files.
  12. Preview your work. When you're ready, Submit it! It'll be queued for review by an editor; if you are an editor, you can publish it right away and add it to a relevant menu, etc.

You can also find additional information in Drupal's End User Guide; editors or admins can find more guidance in the Beginner's Cookbook. Thanks for contributing!

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Rooted Spirituality

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Tryon Life Community Farm extends a special invitation to all communities of faith:

Come share your unique wisdom here at TLC farm.

We welcome all efforts to inspire dialogue, generate workshops, and spawn ceremonies that inter-activate our highest spiritual potential.

  • How does your community root itself in its relationship to the earth?
  • How do the lessons and teachings of your community connect us deeper with the web of life?
  • How can we learn and work together for a healthier, wiser world?

A transformation towards just and sustainable economies requires a sea-change in values -- a dynamic necessarily founded in the ways of spirit. We accordingly seek to make TLC Farm accessible to all spiritual communities oriented towards the sacredness of the earth, and have hosted services and gatherings of Native American, Buddhist, Wiccan, Christian, Jewish, Sufi and other traditions, as well as interfaith ceremonies rooted in growing connection with the land.

In the past, TLC Farm has hosted blessings from Rabbis, Monks, and indigenous spiritual leaders. Currently, this land space holds a Native sweat lodge, earth-based altars built through community collaborations, rituals honoring the shift in seasons, and quiet sacred spaces.

Please contact us to discuss possibilities for occasional or regular engagement with this land and the networks connected through it.


TLC Farm provides common ground where a diversity of movements, communities and individuals in the metropolitan Portland region may:

  1. EDUCATE themselves and one other in skills, values, and paradigms for holistic human integration within our wider ecosystem;
  2. EXPERIENCE a sustainable urban ecology as possible, practical, and desirable; and
  3. EMERGE as empowered co-creators of cultures, economies, and polities of deep change.

We invite communities and individuals of faith to build a relationship with this land and the beautiful creatures co-habitating here. Please:

  • come visit this incredible land base,
  • create sacred space,
  • hold ceremonies and social gatherings,
  • and participate in the ongoing visioning of the sacred transformation of ourselves and this piece of Portland's legacy.

We seek to share this earthly sanctuary for group and personal renewal, meditation and prayer, rites of passage, celebrations, youth retreats, seasonal services, and spiritual ceremonies of all kinds.

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Building a composting toilet (light straw/clay in lathe)

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