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Village Building Convergence, June 3-7

When: 
Jun 3 2016 (All day) - Jun 7 2016 (All day)
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 It's Cob Time again at TLC Farm!

Village Building Convergence: June 3rd-7thgreenhouse entrance redesign
Once again, we'll get muddy together as we participate in our 11th VBC; this year, we'll be hosting natural building work parties to transform our  greenhouse using cob and other building techniques to create both a beautiful community gathering place and also a sturdy thermal mass wall to help regulate the greenhouse temperature.  This addition complements our new ethnobotanical educational garden/ gathering area. 
 

Join us for work parties Friday June 3rd through Tuesday June  7th,  

10:00 am – 4:00 pm every day.
 
No natural building experience necessary!  As always, parking is very limited so please carpool or bike, or catch the shuttle that will be leaving from the VBC central venue (The Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill St, Portland OR 97214) a half hour before work parties begin and returning in time for the evening events. A simple, delicious, nutritious lunch will be provided!
 
Visit the City Repair site to get more information about VBC projects citywide and the evening events.

Village Building Convergence - earthen plastering on June 1 & 2

When: 
Jun 1 2012 - 10:00am - Jun 2 2012 - 4:00pm
Earthen Plastering

 

Join us for two days of the Village Building Convergence, as we complete the earthen plastering inside our beautiful old barn.

The 12th annual VBC runs from May 25-June 3, and TLC Farm will join in the activities on June  1 & 2 - we invite you to come get your hands dirty as we mix sand, clay and straw to become functional, beautiful earthen plaster.
We will be running a shuttle to TLC Farm from the VBC main venue, St. David's of Wales, 2800 SE Harrison.  The shuttle will leave at 9:45 on Friday and Saturday morning, and returning at 4:30 in the afternoon.  Lunch will be provided.
For more details about the entire VBC, visit http://vbc.cityrepair.org/.  Please contact brenna(a)tryonfarm.org with any questions about the TLC Farm building site.
 

Collaborative Art Workshop & Presentation w/ the Beehive Collective

When: 
Aug 31 2010 - 2:00pm - 6:00pm
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Join us and the Beehive Collective (www.beehivecollective.org) for an afternoon of collaborative creative process and cross-pollination.

To begin, the Bees will lead us through their method of designing and creating large-scale collaborative murals which illustrate complex, interconnected concepts through the use of metaphor-rich imagery and visual narrative.  We will focus our collective creative attention on developing ideas and images for TLC Farm's educational land signs, working with concepts of social permaculture, decolonization, bioregionalism, watershed health, TLC Farm's educational programming, intentional community and more!  This will be a participatory, co-created artistic process - please come even if you've never before been here or thought much about any of this.

Afterwards, the Bees will present their newest mural, The True Cost of Coal, which tells the story of the devastating ecological effects of mountain top removal coal mining in Appalachia and the grassroots resistance that is flourishing in the region.

We will be running a shuttle from People's Coop (SE 21st and Tibbetts), meeting at 1:15 and leaving by 1:30. The shuttle will return to People's by 6:45.   This workshop is a by-donation event, with no one turned away for lack of funds.  Please RSVP to maralena.murphy@gmail.com so we can know about how many folk to expect.  We look forward to seeing you!

Earthern Plastering Workparty, June 13 10-4

When: 
Jun 13 2010 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
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On June 4 & 5,  we began plastering the interior of our lovely cob sauna as part of the Village Building Convergence.  It was awesomely fun, educational, and very dirty.  

We'll be finishing up the interior plastering this Sunday, June 13, from 10-4 and invite you to come.  Earthen plaster is accessible to folks of all ages, so kids and elders are very welcome. Please bring your own lunch.

Light Clay Straw- Brett- Spring 2009

Light Clay Straw- Brett- Spring 2009

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Greenhouse construction 2009 Spring

Greenhouse construction 2009 Spring

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odk ovens

odk ovens

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Reciprocal roof - top schematic

Reciprocal roof - top schematic

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Reciprocal roof

Reciprocal roof

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dragon bench

dragon bench

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