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!

Judy's Herb Walk Workshop

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Circle @ Bloom

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Caleb @ Bloom

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American Center for Sustainability @ Bloom

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Brenna Hooping

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Into the Forest

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Bloom Stage

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Moon Blossom: Girls' Rites of Passage Camp

When:

Repeats every day until Sat Aug 01 2009 .

Jul 28 2009 - 10:00am - 4:00pm

Jul 29 2009 - 10:00am - 4:00pm

This summer TLC Farm will be hosting a special program for girls on their journey to becoming young women. Moon Blossom is a rite of passage designed for girls ages 9-14. The girls will be engaged in self-discovery through crafting, making music, working in the garden, hiking, cooking, and exploring tools to build self esteem. Within a positive, girl-focused community, we will connect with the natural world, and consider what it means to be coming of age as a woman in today's world.

We will gather in the beautiful outdoors daily 10-4pm Tues-Thurs, Friday overnight and we end with the parents joining us on Saturday noon-2pm.

hike outdoors
make spirit dolls
make plant medicine
play music in drum circle
hold girls council
storytelling around campfire
experience sweat ceremony
journal, go within and reflect
and more!

Camp Dates:

July 27-31 ages: 11-14 (sign up by July 1st)
Aug 24-28 ages: 9-12 (sign up by Aug 1st)

Legal Details

In 2005, Tryon Life Community Farm was recognized as federally exempt 501(c)3 organization. See advance ruling and determination letters, attached below. TLC Farm collaborates with several other entities to tend this land; the Oregon Sustainable Land Trust (OSALT) holds the legal title to the land; TLC Farm has a 99-year land lease in common with Cedar Moon, a residential worker collective and intentional community on the land. Cedar Moon is incorporated as an LLC, and is legally and financially independent from TLC Farm (though many residents are core volunteers with TLC Farm).

Board of Directors
The current board is:

Kate Flanagan (President)
Paige Evans (Secretary)
Borden Beck
Traci Jo Partin

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Permaculture Workshop Series with Toby Hemenway

When:

Jun 7 2009 - 10:00am - 5:00pm

TLC Farm is excited to host nationally-renowned permaculture expert, Toby Hemenway, for three one day workshops this summer.

Each class runs from 10 am- 5 pm. Classes are $75 each, or $200 for the series. Pre-registration is required - for workshop details and registration information – visit www.tryonfarm.org, email workshops@tryonfarm.org or call 503-245-3847

*Getting Starting in Permaculture* June 7

Join us in an all-day workshop covering the basics of permaculture. You'll learn how nature can teach us how to design sustainable gardens, homes, and communities. Topics will include permaculture principles, design methods, examples of permaculture sites, and how to use nature's patterns in sustainable design. Participants will explore permaculture design through lecture, discussion, images, and hands-on exercises.

*Building Perfect Garden Soil* July 19

This full-day workshop will begin by showing exactly what makes up a perfect garden soil for growing sturdy, healthy plants that lets gardeners avoid pest and disease problems. We'll look at the key players in fertile gardens: the marvelous creatures that build our soil, and we'll learn how to keep them happy and abundant. We'll also see how to make great compost, and cover many other techniques for soil building, such as sheet mulch, compost teas, cover crops, and more.

*Designing a Food Forest* August 2

Food forests are life-filled places that not only provide food for people, but habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits. This workshop will cover the basics of designing, planting, and maintaining a many-layered woodland garden of fruit and nut trees, perennial and annual vegetables, and flowers.

About Toby Hemenway:
Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is also Scholar in Residence at Pacific University.

After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces.

A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches permaculture and consults and lectures on ecological design throughout the country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener, and he is on the board of directors for TLC Farm.