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Work Parties, Skills Shares and Land Tending gatherings
- Sunday February 17th
- Sunday March 10th
- Sunday April 7th
- Sunday May 12th
Share a skill, learn a skill! These monthly events are open to all and a are a space for community supported skill building. Have you learned a new skill lately that you would like to share? These events are intended to be a casual and supportive space to share and learn skills with each other that foster resilience, empowerment, and community based sustainability. Skills related (but limited) to food growing/processing, herbalism, ecological knowledge, gardening, arts and crafts, ancestral skills, and social organizing are encouraged!
Please email ian(at)tryonfarm.org to RSVP and/or if you would like to bring a skill to share.
As host of the event, I will offer a skill share each month. Exactly what skill will depend on the weather and the season. We hope to see you at the next skillshare, dates below:
- · Sun March 17th
- · Sun April 14th
- · Sun May 19th
fourth Saturday of each month, 1:30 pm to 5pm, February 23, March 23, and on . . .
We invite you to join us as we practice working with other earthdwellers to cultivate richness, beauty, and vitality at TLC Farm. We will do this by listening and acting on what we hear. Listening to birds and winds, listening as we move and change plants and soil, listening to our inner world as a participant in a particular web of life.
Each month, we will gather in gratitude for the beings around us and to recognize our unique gifts of relationship with them, followed by setting the day's focus and our regular practices. Small groups will find places around the land that will be consistent over the seasons to spend time paying attention to what has changed, physically and in other ways, and what is called for.
These groups will initiate or continue seasonally appropriate projects, in the context of the land’s overall plan, to make these places richer and more diverse for plants, animals, fungi, microbes – and humans. At the end of each session’s work, we will come back together to reflect on our experiences and share thoughts for how to bring these ways into our daily lives, where we live.
These gatherings are appropriate for participants of all ages, capacities, and experience levels. We invite people to come and build a connection with a particular place on the land by tending it over time, but one-time or short-term commitments will be accommodated by pairing you with someone else.
Specific activities may include the following, but are limited only by your inspiration: layering compost and compost tea; digging some roots and propagating others; making comfortable sit spots; singing new songs and old ones; tending pathways; acknowledging sacred space with altars; pruning trees and bushes; pressing prayers into seedballs and scattering them; making evanescent art with berries and feathers; growing “living rooms” made of plants and open areas; mulching; meditating; blessing.
Participants invited regardless of ability to pay. Donations welcomed. For more information, contact landwork@tryonfarm.org
Facilitators Vinnie and brush have been listening to the land both here at TLC Farm and in California for many years, and will offer their knowledge of the site and experience with specific practices to the group.
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2019 Calendar of Events
2019 Calendar of Events at TLC Farm:
Monthly Movie Night!
Join us each month at 7 pm for a movie in the yurt, with homemade snacks & drinks. Movie nights will be on December 19th, January 16th, February 20th, March 27th, April 17th, May 15th (check back for specific movies). Donations gladly accepted!
Monthly work parties & skills shares: Details on this page!
Spring Workshops:
Herbal Workshop: Spring Tonics, Sunday March 31st 11am-2pm
Participants will have the opportunity to get acquainted with our wonderfully abundant spring tonic herbs growing all around us this time of year. Learn about the medicinal propertiesandwide range of uses of spring tonic herbs like Dandelion, Burdock, Cleavers, and Nettles and get hands on experience making medicinal preparations you can take home with you. $20-40 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF. To register, or for more information, contact ian@tryonfarm.org
Do-it-Ourselves Mushroom Cultivation, Sunday April 28th 11am-3pm
Participants will learn the basic steps and get hands on experience cultivating species of edible and medicinal Mushrooms using low-tech, low cost techniques. In this workshop we'll walk through the process of growing grain spawn and ways to expand it onto a variety of substrates for both indoor and outdoor cultivation using readily available and repurposed materials. $25-45 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF. To register, or for more information, contact ian@tryonfarm.org
TLC Farm Photo Album - check it out!
TLC Farm is so beautiful and has changed so much over the past fifteen years - we invite you to check out our photo album to view pictures of the land, structures, events, people, animals and more!
Willow Creek Forest School: now enrolling!
Willow Creek Forest School is TLC Farm's outdoor, place-based kindgarten for children 3-5 years old. Visit WillowCreekForestSchool.org for more information about enrolling in the 2018-2019 school year.
Children enjoy a consistent daily rhythm in which they can allow their imaginations to blossom and be immersed in the magic of the forest, while learning to be good stewards to the land and each other. The flow of the day includes: crafts, homesteading skills, plant medicine-making, snack time provided by the school (including bread baked in the cob oven!), circle time, plenty of time in the forest and special festival days – all guided by songs and stories inspired by the changing seasons on the land.
School runs for 9 months, Tuesday-Thursday from 9:30am-1:30pm, with an option to add aftercare each day until 3:00. Visit WillowCreekForestSchool.org for more information and to enroll.
About Teacher Isobel: Isobel has been working with children in various settings for 12 years, and has been living on the land at TLC Farm for five years. For the past two years, she worked with Mother Earth School while dreaming about starting her own program. She loves sharing this magical land with children!
“Teacher Isobel is truly focused on your child(ren) in nature immersion. Isobel is a warm, generous teacher with a lot of stories, wild crafting, and nature immersion experience in Tryon. Your child deserves a nature immersion experience at least once in her/his life!” – Heather Saunders, parent
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