Tryon Life Community Farm

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!

Mason Bees & Fruiting Trees Workshop, March 4

When:

Mar 4 2017 - 11:00am - 4:00pm

Saturday March 4, 11am-1pm (bees) & 2pm-4pm (trees)

Come to one or both of these hands-on workshops, in which you'll learn the basics of tending for native pollinators and pruning the apples, pears, and plums they help fruit!

11-1: bees. Mason bees are solitary bees, meaning they don't form colonies and aren't susceptible to the hive collapses that threaten the global food supply. They are more active in cool, moist mornings than honeybees, and their remarkable lifecycle means they gather a year's supply of food -and do all their pollinating -in the spring when fruit trees are flowering. Learn how to tend them and increase your flock and buy some farmgrown bees at a discount (if you wish).

2-4: trees. Fruit trees - especially apples and pears, and to a lesser extent, plums - thrive with yearly pruning to encourage fruit production and minimize bough breakage and disease. Late winter is the perfect time to prune for structure and fruiting; we'll discuss and demonstrate examples of how to train and prune young trees, repair years of neglect in mature trees, and how to maintain a balance of fruiting wood and young growth. Bring your own sharp loppers or secateurs if you want to practice!

$25 suggested donation for each session (no one turned away for lack of funds). Bring a lunch, if you plan to stay for both sessions. To register, or for more information, contact brush@tryonfarm.org

Workshop presenter Brush, TLC Farm's orchardist, has been tending fruit trees at TLC Farm for ten years, and cultivating mason bees for five. He is especially infatuated with the cider and perry trees he has grafted and nursed that should bear first fruits this year.

Supporting a more just future for the peoples of this land

Not so very long ago, the land we now call Tryon Life Community Farm was the hunting grounds of the Tualatin Kalapuya and the Clackamas Chinook.

For thousands of years they thrived, until 200 years ago devastating diseases swept through their villages severely reducing the population. Before they had a chance to recover, waves of Euro-American colonization hit the land we now call Oregon. Years of struggle to retain tribal autonomy followed, as did many promises made and broken by the United States government. Mounting pressure for more land by white settlers led the federal government to extinguish all native claim to land in the Willamette and Tualatin valleys and forcibly remove the tribes to the Grande Ronde and other reservations in 1855.

The government then set about giving the land away to Euro-American settlers, including Hotchkiss Socrates Tryon who claimed the valley which is now his namesake park. His name is well known, even included in the name of our land project, while those from whom the land was stolen have been forgotten by many.

Why do you need to know this? Learning and sharing the history of this land, and that of all western Oregon, is key to understanding why those who visit, volunteer, come to classes, and enjoy events here, have been predominately white. And why this needs to change.

Over the past few years, TLC Farm has been actively reshaping itself to counter this legacy of colonialism. To do so, a new collective created by and for people of color has taken root on this land. The Sacred Lands Alliance is working with TLC Farm volunteers to make the land and programs more accessible for frontline communities who have been alienated from thier lands.

We can't undo the past, but we can absolutely shape the future.

Thanks for your part in making the future more just and equitable, here at TLC Farm and in all the places we collectively strive for justice.

Education

2018 Calendar of Events

Natural Building Work Parties - Weekends, April-May
Bloom Spring Celebration - Sunday, June 10
Village Building Convergence - June 1-4
Apple Fest - Saturday, September 22
(more events to be added, as the year evolves)

We hope to see you here in 2018!

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Apple Fest, Saturday October 8th, 2-5 pm

When:

Oct 8 2016 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us to celebrate that best of fruits - the APP LE! For our third annual Apple Festival, we 'll explore the many wonderful ways to engagewith apples - including: apple tastings of our many heirloom apple varietals, apple c ider pressing, apple-themed cocktails, a n apple pie contest (bring your best pie!), and n sharing songs to sing to apple trees. W e'll also have a tour of TLC Farm, with a sp ecial emphasis on the orchard, and music and acti vities for all. This is a fundraiser f or TLC Farm's educational programs with a sug gested donation of $5-20, 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 Rive rdale High School (9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd.)