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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Apple Fest - Saturday, September 21, 2-5 pm

When:

Sep 22 2018 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

It is getting appley here right now, and you should share it with us!

For our sixth annual Apple Festival, we'll explore many wonderful ways to engage with apples - including:

apple tastings of our many heirloom apple varietals, including Tompkins King, Spitzenberg, Liberty, Black Johnathan, Calville blanc d'Hivre and more!
apple cider pressing,
apple-themed cocktails,
an apple pie contest (bring your best pie!), and
sharing songs to sing to apple trees.

We'll also have creative family games, music and a tour of TLC Farm, with a special emphasis on the orchard.

This is a fundraiser for TLC Farm's educational programs with a suggested donation of $10-20, but no one turned away for lack of funds.

As always, there is no onsite parking! Ride your bike or organize carpools and catch the shuttle at Riverdale High School (9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd.)

Bloom Fest

When:

Jun 10 2018 - 2:00pm - 10:00pm

Join us Sunday, June 10, from 3-10 pm for a veryspecial Bloom Festival! This year, we'reteaming up with our friends at City Repair to cel ebrate the last day of the Village Building Conver gence at TLC Farm's annual Bloom Fest. A fternoon activities will include: ~live musi c from Tyra the fiddler and Lumberjack; ~sto rytelling with Ed Edmo and Fayer Hutchins; ~ facepainting, ~visiting the baby goats, me dicinal plant walk, and more! In the even ing, we'll sing together in community song c ircles throughout the land. This is a very f amily friendly event - so bring your kids and yourparents. Delicious, organic food and drink willbe available (not included in entrance fee). $10-20 sliding scale donation for the event, kid s are free. All proceeds benefit TLC Farm'ssustainability education programs and the VillageBuilding Convergence. Want to volunteer and get i n free? Email brenna@tryonfarm.org to sign-up. n As always, there is no onsite parking! Please c atch our continuously running shuttle van at the n earby Riverdale High School, 9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd.

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Bloom - A community celebration, Sunday June 10. Rain or shine!

When:

Jun 10 2018 - 3:00pm - 10:00pm

The flowers need rain to Bloom! All events still will happen - rain or shine - as we get cozy together in the yurt! Come today and we'll teach you our favorite rain songs. . .

We're teaming up with our friends at City Repair to celebrate the last day of the Village Building Convergence and have a very special Bloom to share with you. Here's some details:

Activities begin at 3 and include hula hooping & facepainting with Ruckus Muckus, making seed balls, visiting the baby goats, and a roving fiddler!

We're honored to host storyteller Ed Edmo at 4:30. Ed is a Shoshone-Bannock poet, playwright, performer, traditional storyteller, tour guide and lecturer on Northwest tribal culture.
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At 5 pm, you can dance to Lumberjack's "foot-stomping, heart-pounding vagabond rock" or take a walk with Mae, our community herbalist, to meet the medicinal plants throughout the land.

Throughout the day we'll be selling Bloom dinner homemade sodas and snacks from our wonderful tea house, and at 6 pm the VBC nourishment team will have a yummy vegetarian dinner available for $10.

In the evening, we'll sing together in song circles throughout the land. Please bring songs to share that invite group sing-alongs and are rooted in your own cultural experience. If you would like to take part in a recorded group dialogue about your experience in song circles as part of a region-wide study, you can join a group in the hour before dinner.

$10-20 sliding scale donation for the event, kids are free. All proceeds benefit TLC Farm's sustainability education programs and the Village Building Convergence. Want to volunteer and get in free? Email brenna@tryonfarm.org.

As always, there is no onsite parking. Please catch our continuously running shuttle van at the nearby Riverdale High School, 9727, SW Terwilliger Blvd. Drivers are invited to drop off passengers at the top of our driveway then park at the High School lot. Coordinate rideshares here!

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Summer Camps at TLC Farm

Registration is open for summer camps at TLC Farm!

All camps are Tuesday-Friday, led by professional teachers at TLC Farm and in the surrounding forest of Tryon Creek State Park.

Children will participate in exciting nature-based crafts and empowering activities such as gardening, herbal medicine making, crafting, natural building, woodworking, forest exploration and more. Each day we'll visit the goats and chickens, explore the forest, hear stories, sing songs and share a nutritious, organic snack.

Visit WillowCreekForestSchool.org for more information about summer camp dates & themes and registration.