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!

Welcome to our schedule of monthly workshops. We endeavor to be well-rounded in our exploration of what it takes to create a sustainable world, and hope that you will find both what you're looking for and what you never expected to find.

September 9-11
Plant Medicine & Disaster Herbalism
Come join us on the land for a weekend of learning about plant medicine, community building, and emergency preparedness. Friday will present several workshops with local herbalists, ranging from hands-on medicine making to plant meditation to facilitated conversations about herbalism, dynamics of privilege, and efforts for healing both people and place. Saturday & Sunday will be a two-day intensive, called Community and Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations, with Leah Wolfe.

September 18, 10am-4 pm
Food Preservation
Just in time for harvest! Learn about and practice various methods of food preservation, including canning, freezing, drying and long-term produce storage. Using TLC Farm's garden, orchard and outdoor kitchen as a classroom, this class will involve both discussion (your ideas, thoughts and wisdom invited!) and hands-on engagement with food preservation. Sliding scale fee of $15-50, with worktrade options available. Kids welcome!
Please register for the class (and contact me early if you are interested in work trade) at brenna@tryonfarm.org.

October 8-9
Natural Building
Get your hands dirty working with light/straw clay and earthen plaster to insulate & plaster our beautiful old barn. Class will be taught by expert earthen plasterer, Joshua Klyber (visit http://www.livingwallspdx.com to view Joshua's work). Contact brenna@tryonfarm.org to register.

November 12-13
Human Resources for the Revolution!
Apply Permaculture Principles to social relationships, from individual, to group to the ecosystem of movement of movements. Learn practical skills and share reflective, interactive experiences for exploring our social ecology.

Unless otherwise noted, workshops have a sliding scale fee of $20-60/day, with worktrade options available.
Many of our workshops are family-friendly, with children's activities included. Start and end times vary - please check this website for details about each workshop closer to its date.

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Meetup location:

Peoples Food Coop (SE Tibbetts and 21st)

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Summer 2011 Worktrade Position: Artist/Designer

When:

May 1 2011 (All day) - Sep 1 2011 (All day)

We are seeking a visual artist/designer to assist in the completion of our educational signage project.

About the Project

Here at TLC Farm, we are re-embodying and re-weaving ancient stories of what it is to be alive. We take as our base operating principle the fact that all systems, and all elements of each system, are interconnected, and that the deepest knowledge and understanding comes from looking at a subject within the context of the greater whole(s) in which it is embedded.

As a land-based project which is open to the public 6 days of the week, we have the need for accessible, thorough and comprehensive signage so that visitors to the land are able to self-educate. We have been developing concepts and design ideas for 9 educational signs for the past several months, and are now ready to move into the finalized design & production process.

In some ways, each sign on this tour is telling the same story: one of the great web of life in which we find ourselves suspended. That said, each sign focuses on a different aspect of the web, magnifying one piece of what knowledge and skills are necessary for humans to relearn in order to live in harmony with our Mother Earth.

About the Residency

In exchange for 25 hours of work a week (at least 15 of which must be spent on the land sign project) we will offer you space for a tent on our land, the opportunity to live in a thriving land-based community and support around integration into and completion of the project. We ask $5 a day for food, and would welcome you to arrive generally in May and to stay through the end of August, with a project completion deadline of no later than September 1st.

We are looking for a person who both has a developed understanding of the concepts about which the signs are meant to educate – including colonialism, permaculture, earth-based spirituality, bioregionalism, organic gardening, natural building, watershed ecology, native rights, etc. – as well as the ability to translate these relatively complex concepts into a coherent series of interconnected images. The balance of design work to art production in this residency is yet to be determined, and will develop as the summer and project progress.

How To Apply

Please send electronic copies of the work you feel best represents your ability to undertake this project along with answers to the following questions to maralena@tryonfarm.org

Who are you? What are you doing? How does this project interface with and build upon the time you have already spent upon this earth?
Tell us about your experiences living in community.
Tell us about your relationship with the land.
How do you work collaboratively as an artist? As a designer?
How would you illustrate, with minimal text, the concepts of globalization and re-localization?
How will you deal with potentially having to do your creative work in a shared-use space in which there might be meetings, children and a general feeling of scrappiness and DIYishness?
How will you deal with the dynamic of this being a position which requires a lot of self-direction and motivation within the context of the community having a clear idea of the product desired and already having put a lot of foundational work into the project?
Is there anything else you’d like us to know?

Mother Earth School summer camp ages 7-9

When:

Repeats every day until Tue Aug 23 2011 except Sat Aug 06 2011, Sun Aug 07 2011, Mon Aug 08 2011, Sat Aug 13 2011, Sun Aug 14 2011, Mon Aug 15 2011, Sat Aug 20 2011, Sun Aug 21 2011.

Aug 2 2011 - 9:00am - 2:00pm

Aug 3 2011 - 9:00am - 2:00pm

This camp is taught by Waldorf and Waldorf-inspired teachers on the land at TLC Farm and in the surrounding forest of Tryon Creek State Park. Each week children participate in exciting nature-based crafts and empowering activities such as gardening, food harvesting & preservation, cooking, herbal medicine making, crafting, natural building, woodworking, forest exploration, etc. They spend time each day with the farm animals, in the gardens and immersed in the forest, hearing stories and singing about the native plants, animals and traditions indigenous to this landscape.

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Permaculture Design Course with Toby Hemenway

When:

Oct 22 2011 - 9:00am - Oct 23 2011 - 5:00pm

Toby Hemenway and Tryon Life Community Farm are partnering to bring you Portland's most professional and dynamic Permaculture Design Course. If you are working for a sustainable future and want practical tools and a deeper whole-systems perspective, then this course is for you. It is especially useful for home & business owners, educators, planners, design professionals, farmers, gardeners, and organizers. Course graduates will receive a permaculture design certificate from the Permaculture Institute (USA).

Toby Hemenway will lead three of the six course weekends. Andrew Millison will lead two weekends and provide design project support. Guest instructors include Larry Santoyo, Jude Hobbs, Michael Becker, Marisha Auerbach, Leonard Barrett, and TLC Farm’s Matt Bibeau and Jenny Leis. Matt and Jenny will also serve as course hosts.

Tryon Life Community Farm is a non-profit permaculture and sustainability education center on 7-acres of orchard, garden, pasture and forest, surrounded by the 700-acre Tryon Creek State Park and within the city limits of Portland. TLC Farm will provide opportunities for hands-on skill-building as well as an inspiring setting for the course.

Tuition is $850, with optional lunch and camping separate.
For course details, visit www.patternliteracy.com.
For venue details, visit www.tryonfarm.org.
For questions and registration, email Jenny at patternliteracy@gmail.com or call at 503-548-8459.