Workshops and Events

This working group works to support people in sharing life, learning, and liberation together as part of the land. We do this through 

• Workshops that we learn are need, design, find teachers for, and promote.
• Events that others are excited to throw, and want to use a "venue" that weaves deeply with the land and the others here, human and more-than-human.

If you'd like to use the space for an event, please email events@tryonfarm.org.

If you'd like to join the team that organizes, or you have an idea for an awesome workshop, email workshops@tryonfarm.org

Thanks so much!

Get your hands dirty and learn versatile natural building techniques.  The class will be focusing on light straw/clay insulation and earthen plaster to finish the inside of TLC Farm's beautiful old barn. Open to all skill levels.

Class will be taught by expert earthen plasterer, Joshua Klyber (visit http://www.livingwallspdx.com to view Joshua's work).

Sliding scale $20-60 per day, with limited work trade available.  Contact brenna@tryonfarm.org to register.

TLC Farm's Monthly Workshop series presents:

Plant Medicine Workshop Series & Community and Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations

Come join us on the land for a weekend of learning about plant medicine, community building, and emergency preparedness! There will be a day of Plant Medicine Workshops on Friday, Sept. 9th, followed by a two-day intensive on Disaster Herbalism on Saturday and Sunday (the 10th and 11th).

The plant medicine workshops will be hosted by local herbalists, with topics ranging from hands-on medicine making and plant meditation, to facilitated conversations about herbalism, dynamics of privilege and efforts for healing both people and place! The Disaster Herbalism intensive, brought to the farm by our local Rosehip Medic Collective, will focus on the importance of plants and further education in preparing for ecological/social emergency.

Our intention is to gather together to share skills and ideas - regardless of prior experience. If you're brand new to herbalism, a seasoned medicine-maker, or anywhere in between: know that you're welcome! You can register for both events, or come to just one. Registration for both events is separate, more details below...

Workshop Descriptions:

Friday, 10AM - 6PM

-- interactive plant walk through the farm and Tryon Creek Forest

-- The Body Remembers: The Physiology of Stress, Health Disparities and Botanical Interventions with Lydia Bartholow

While the title sounds daunting, this fun workshop will cover the basic physiology of stress in the body, discuss why it so darn important to understand it, how stress effects health on a community/population based level and wrap up by talking about some herbal interventions (and support) for the over-stressed body and mind. This workshop is geared towards a radical understanding of political-economics, oppression and health.

*Lydia is a registered nurse, a writer, an organizer and a practitioner of both allopathic and botanical medicine. She has been studying botany and botanical medicine since 2001 and teaching since 2007. Currently a doctoral student at Oregon Health and Science University, Lydia focuses her practice on mental wellness and radical public health. Past and current roles in care providing include heavy emphasis on harm reduction, cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma based care. She is deeply interested in the political and social implications of care work, mental health and the body. Lydia lives in North Portland with too many animals and often obsesses about the prison industrial complex.*

--- Put the Craft Back in Wildcrafting: How to Tend Plants in the Wild and Make New Medicinal Stands with Sam Spikenard

We will discuss how to take care of and grow plants outside of the garden setting and why that is becoming more and more important.

--- Revolutionary Healers - a facilitated discussion with Dir'k & Rosemary

what are the connections between herbalism and liberation struggle? how does a healer's responsibility to those whom they support relate to addressing the root causes of the sickness? does ethical wildcrafting demand participation in defense of the earth? what are critical contributions that herbalists are situated to offer to revolutionary struggles? join us for an exploration of these and other questions, in an environment of critical engagement and mutual support.

If you want to attend this series, you must register by e-mailing tinderaceae@riseup.net by September 1st. You will then receive information about schedule, shuttles/transportation, food, and camping. The Friday series is available for a sliding scale of $15 - a million dollars...all of which directly supports keeping this educational center open and active! Some work trade positions are available.

On Saturday & Sunday, the Rosehip Medic Collective (www.rosehipmedics.org) presents Community and Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations with Leah Wolfe, 10AM - 5PM both days...

"When disaster strikes, government response is often slow, leaving victims without help for days. Community preparedness and response is vital. This is an introductory workshop that will show you how to begin to prepare yourself and your community. Our approach recognizes the importance of plants, and community building, and further education. We will share important stories from recent disasters and relief efforts. Visit our website to see photos from our relief work in Haiti after the earthquake: http://serpentine-project. org/http://serpentine-project. org/  . Donations beyond travel expenses and fees will be used to support The Serpentine Project (based in NE Ohio & NW Wisconsin), a restoration and education project for indigenous plants and traditional medicine."

Register separately for Saturday & Sunday by September 1 at info@serpentine-project.org. Sliding-scale donation: $40-80.

Homesteading & Rewilding Skillshare at Tryon Life Community Farm
 
August 7th & 8th, 2010
Saturday: 10am - 10pm,   Sunday: 10am - 5pm

Share your heart, share your mind, share your skillls!  We invite folks of all ages to join in this skillshare.  The offerings will include all the following, and more:

Felting
Fire by friction
Tanning hides
Herbal medicine
Wild food
Cordage
Drop spindles
Flint knapping
Beekeeping
Cheese making
Book binding
Trade Blanket
Kid's Activities
 & back by popular demand…  The Kissing Workshop

As well as all the land-based skills you bring to share!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

The skillshare goes from 10am - 10pm on saturday. there will be an evening fire and trade blanket. on sunday, it goes from 10am to 5pm.

This is a co-created event - please bring your land-based skills to share! it is also an experiment in gift economy, though some kind of contribution is requested to support our hosts. This might be a monetary donation, volunteering to drive a shuttle shift, or really busting it to help us clean up.

Please bring food for the community kitchen! it would be especially helpful if you could dumpster some produce on yr way over. skillshare participants will have access to a full kitchen but it'll take the self-organization of the group to make meals happen.

you can ride your bike to the farm (11640 sw boones ferry rd.) but we don't have any space for cars! Park at or ride the #12 bus to Barbur Blvd Transit Center Park and Ride,  9712 SW Barbur BLVD. Shuttles will bring you to the farm at 9, 10, 12, 4 & 5 on both saturday and sunday.

Camping is available on saturday night but you MUST reserve a space beforehand. that's a sliding scale of $5 - $25.

For more information or to volunteer to help, call aspen at 208 221 9536, aspe...@gmail.com, or tinder at 518 567 9044.