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Give us suggestions, accolades, critique, or anything else that can help us serve you and the world better! The best way to do this would be to email us at farm[at]tryonfarm.org for general feedback, or edu[at]tryonfarm.org for feedback about our education programs. You can also call us at 503-245-3847, or post something on our facebook page!
The following is an incomplete list of roles and tasks, organized by working group. Please contact volunteer@tryonfarm.org (or the working group or task coordinator) to jump in!
(3 hrs/wk; 3 month commitment; >50% onsite)
(>5 hr/wk; 6 mo commitment; >25% onsite)
(>5 hrs/mo; >1 yr commitment; >10% on site)
(>3 hrs/wk; 6 mo commitment; >75% on site)
(3-8 hours per event; 4 events in 12 month period; 100% on site)
(>5 hrs/mo; 1 year commitment; >25% on site)
(>1 hr/wk; 1 mo commitment; >0% onsite)
(>5 hrs/wk; >6 mo commitment; >25% onsite)
(0.5 to 3 hrs per occasion; added to list w/ availability)
(0.25 to 1 hr; 10 occasion commitment; 100% on site)
finish suana, toilet, barn, rocket bench, maintaining cob
(>0.5 hrs; no commitment)
(> 1 hr; variable commitment; >0% on site)
(3 hrs/wk; 3 mo commitment; >75% on site)
(<2 hrs per session; 5 session commitment; 100% on site)
(10 – 50 hrs; >15% on site) Experience preferred.
(10 – 25 hrs; commit to complete project; probably 100% on site)
(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >0% on site)
(> 10 hrs/mo; 3 mo commitment; >10% on site)
(1-3 hrs/wk; 3 mo commitment; >0% on site)
(10+ hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >25% on site)
(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; 100% on site)
(5-10 hrs/mo; 1 year minimum; >0% on site)
(10 hrs/mo; 1 issue/quarter commitment; >25% on site)
(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >25% on site)
(5-20 hrs/mo; 3 mo commitment; >50% on site)
(3 hrs/wk; 6 mo commitment; >75% on site)
(.5 – 3 hrs; put on list OR responsibility for area; >0% on site)
(1-10 hrs; on list; >15% on site)
(1-20 hrs; per story basis; >0% on site)
(5 hrs/wk up to fulltime; >1 year commitment; >25% onsite)
===Network Organizer=== (40 hrs/wk; 1 year commitment; >25% on site)
(15+ hrs/mo; >3 mo commitment; >50% on site)
(>2 hr/wk; 6 mo commitment; >50% on site)
(5-10 hr/mo; >2 yr commtiment; >15% on site)
(5-20+ hr/wk; >6 mo commitment; >75% on site)
(>1 hr/mo; added to list; >0% on site)
(1+ hr per session; added to list; not necessarily on site)
(1+ hr per session; added to list, 5 session commitment; not necessarily on site)
(<3 hrs per meeting; added to list, 5 meeting commitment; usually on site)
(2+ hrs per session; added to list; not nec. on site)
(1+ hrs per session; 10 session commitment; >25% on site)
(on list, no necessary commitment)
(1+ hrs per session; no minimum commitment; >15% on site)
In progress. Participants will use this part of the site for keeping track of what we see, hear, do, etc. Check back for more.
In progress. What are the plants here? Soil? Animals? Climate? This page will include information on a wide variety of related topics.
For now, check out our guide to medicinal plants at TLC Farm.
Come back soon!
In progress. Once complete, the virtual tour will display a variety of clickable maps and aerial views, which will take you to pictures of the history, present, and future of various locations at TLC Farm. Check back soon! For now, view our draft Strategic Land Plan:
Tryon Life Community Farm is located at:
11640 SW Boones Ferry Road
Portland, OR 97219
Note: Google Maps gives misleading directions for the #35 bus and other routes; and Apple Maps and others may give poor directions for driving. Please check the directions on this page for best ways here.
Getting to the Farm is quicker than is often thought! It's just 30-45 minutes by bike from central Portland, and by car it's just 10-20 minutes to anywhere the freeway goes. (Without traffic.)
Please note that we have limited parking at the farm and encourage folks to carpool or use other forms of transportation. The lot at the top of the driveway is for visitors to Tryon Creek State Park, not people coming to TLC Farm (also, theft of goods left in cars is very common from the Park's lot!).
Our solutions:
By car -- see below or try the mapped directions from downtown or your ZIP code:
From I-5 headed South:
Take the Terwilliger exit #297. Make a right off the off-ramp onto SW Barbur Boulevard and then another quick right at the light onto SW Terwilliger. Pass over the I-5 overpass heading towards Lewis & Clark College and Tryon Creek State Park. Continue straight through 2 lights on Terwilliger, the 2nd being SW Taylor's Ferry Road. Pass Riverdale High School on your right. At the next light (the 3rd on Terwilliger), take a slight right onto SW Boone's Ferry Road. You'll head down a hill. Halfway up the other side of the hill look for the Sturdi-Built Greenhouses sign on the left and then Coronado St. on the right. The next turnoff you can make on the left after Coronado St is a parking lot and trailhead for Tryon Creek State Park. Turn into this lot. Our longish dirt driveway is on the far (south) end of the little lot.
From downtown or central Portland:
Head South on SW Barbur Boulevard. About 3 miles from downtown, take a left at a light onto SW Terwilliger (A-Boy Hardware is on the right, Kaady Car Wash on the left, before you get to Fred Meyer's). Follow the directions above from Terwilliger.
If you're coming from south of Powell in Southeast Portland, you may prefer the Sellwood Bridge. Once on the west side of the river, turn right onto Macadam going north to the light at Taylor's Ferry Rd. Turn left onto Taylors Ferry and head up the hill to Terwilliger. Take a left onto Taylors Ferry. Pass Riverdale High School on your right. At the next light, take a slight right onto SW Boone's Ferry Road. You'll head down a hill. Halfway up the other side of the hill look for the Sturdi-Built Greenhouses sign on the left and then Coronado St. on the right. The next turnoff you can make on the left after Coronado St is a parking lot and trailhead for Tryon Creek State Park. Turn into this lot. Our longish dirt driveway is on the far (south) end of the little lot. then take a left and follow directions above. (Note: do not illegally turn left onto Boone's Ferry from Taylor's Ferry. Or better, for more peaceful biking, have someone show you how to bike through the cemetary from the bridge!)
From Lake Oswego:
Take Country Club Rd west till it meets Boones Ferry Rd, and bear right onto it. After two or so miles you will go through an intersection with Stevenson Rd at a flashing yellow light. About 200 ft afterwards, after a curve, there will be a small dirt parking lot on the right. Beware, it comes quickly; don't speed! Our longish dirt driveway is on the south (near) end, so turn around in the lot.
From I-5 headed North: From I-5 N take the Kruse Way exit (#292B), turn left (that's east) onto Kruse Way, and continue till you dead end onto Boone's Ferry Rd. Turn left onto Boone's Ferry and continue straight through the Country Club Rd intersection. Follow directions from Lake Oswego above.
There are two main ways to come from central Portland by bike: the fast way, and the scenic route. Click on the links below for customized bike maps.
By Bus
The Tri-Met #38 (schedule) runs past our driveway to and from downtown, only during rush hours. During rush hours, the #39 (schedule) meets the #12 (schedule) from downtown near the Fred Meyer by Terwilliger and Barbur; ask the driver. It also drops off right near the driveway.
At other times, including weekends, and leaving downtown from 5:30 am to 11:30 pm daily, the #35 bus (schedule) runs along Terwilliger just through the Park from us. The quickest way is to get off at the Nature Center main Park entrance -- not the intersection of Boones Ferry and Terwilliger as recommended by some apps. It's then just a 15-20 minute walk down to High Bridge up back up to the Farm.
Alteratively, for a bit more time in the firest you can get off at the Law School; see map at right.
By foot, through the park
Maps with trails marked: see map at right, or in the PDF file attached below. It might help if you can print out the map and bring it with you.
The entrance to our land is on the West Horse Loop trail, just west of the cutoff to the Boone's Ferry parking lot.
And if you're desperately lost, call us at 503-245-3847.
Become a work-trader! Live on the land and work with other volunteers using both mind and body. Become a temporary participant in the life of the land and the communities that live, work, and play here. If you can commit to being here at least one month and devote much of your time to working and learning on the land, please consider applying. Often, work projects are self-directed as we are all volunteers here!
Being a work-trader at TLC farm means contributing 25 hours of work a week. The hours consists mainly of garden work, but also may include fundraising, advertising, event set-up, event clean-up, and many other odd jobs that go into running a non-profit. Work-traders live on the land usually in a tent or a tarp structure. Work-traders also can either provide their own food or contribute $6 a day for full use of community food, which includes a full community dinner every night!
To apply please download the form below. Inside the form is a bit more explanation about what you can expect from us and what we will expect from you. Once you have read and filled out the form please send it back to us at worktrade [at] tryonfarm.org. Feel free to include any extra questions and comments about yourself when sending in the application. From there we will schedule a phone conversation and figure out if it will work for you and the community.
Download the form below and send your application to worktrade [at] tryonfarm.org
Launched by TLC Farm in 2007, Recode is now an autonomous project with its own website:http://recodenow.org, office space, and director Melora Golden who can be reached at: info at recodenow dot org
Read on for a brief summary of Recode's goals, and see bottom of page to sign up for email announcement list, and download relevant files.
Recode is an organization that brings together citizens, planners, builders, activists, and other stakeholders in developing, coordinating, and building the movement for regulations that support grassroots sustainability.
Recode:
· facilitates collaboration among the existing organizations and people doing various aspects of the work;
· creates space for grassroots groups in the discussion; and
· specifically advocates for acting within a strategy of systemic change.
Sign Up for Recode’s newsletter: http://www.recodenow.org/newsletter-signup
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