Farm Camp 2007: July 24 through 27
for young people ages 8-11
July 24-27, Tuesday-Friday, 9:00am-2:00pm daily
Our first Farm Camp was a success! Thanks to all the participants and their families for making it such an enjoyable experience. We learned a lot and hope to host more and even better camps next summer. You can read a little about the camp's structure below.
Tryon Life Community Farm is a unique non-profit ecological education center on 7 acres surrounded by Tryon Creek State Park. Come spend four days in this beautiful farm and forest setting while helping in the gardens, tending farm animals, playing games, cooking with fresh ingredients, getting to know insects, building with natural materials, singing songs, meeting new people, and having lots of fun!
Enjoy an outdoor kitchen, covered teahouse, large sloping meadow, gardens, orchard, chickens, goats, and paths leading into the state park.
Themes:
Garden, Food, and Soil; Bugs and Animals; Natural Building and Art; Harvest, Cooking and Celebration.
People who make it happen
TLC Farm runs on love and creativity, with an enormous amount of volunteer energy fueling our projects. Below are the bios of the Board of Directors and key organizers & volunteers (more to come!).
Key organizers and volunteers
Jenny Leis
J. Brush. Brush is a writer, organizer, videographer, and computer consultant, with a long history of participation in cooperative communities. He has spent much of the last five years working with peace and social justice organizations to improve communications, strategic thinking, and coordination. Most recently, he has worked with the Green Bloc to document their direct actions linking global justice convergences with long-term urban permaculture and community gardening. He has also worked in South Africa, building relationships between US activist communities and SA poor peoples' movements struggling for community empowerment and basic services. He has been published in a variety of periodicals, and presented a plenary paper at the 2002 Radical Philosophy Association conference at Brown University. Currently, he is focused on developing TLC Farm's information technology infrastructure and publicity materials.
Brenna Bell. Brenna brings to her work ten years of organizing experience, as well as an extensive background in environmental law and education. She has spent many years in the Tryon Creek watershed: first as a student at Lewis & Clark College, where she self-designed a major in Social Ecology; next as a counselor at the Tryon Creek State Park summer day camp; then as a student at Lewis & Clark Law School, where she was President of the Student Bar Association and received an Environmental and Natural Resources Certificate; and finally as a resident and core organizer with Tryon Life Community Farm. Brenna has worked for numerous non-profits, including the NEDC, the Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center, and Willamette Riverkeeper. She is also blessed to be raising her children, Ember & Raven, in the strong and supportive TLC Farm community.
Board of Directors
Kate Flanagan (Pres.)
Paige Evans
Tyra
Robert Van Pelt
Borden Beck
Elona Trogub
Past members, Board of Directors
Judy Bluehorse Skelton
Howard Silverman
Naga Nataka
Erico Schliecher
Samantha Backer
Hope Medford
Tod Sloan
Miles Uchida
Oso Martin
Dave Bolger
Jen Seamans
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