Tryon Life Community Farm

TLC Farm facilitates a diversity of movements, communitiues and individuals in the metropolitan Portland region to:

• educate ourselves and each other regarding skills, values, and paradigms for holistic human integration into our ecosystems;

experience a sustainable urban ecology as possible, practical, and desirable; and

Within 15 years, we will accomplish these purposes by coordinating programs and projects in the following areas:

• Education:
  • Provide learning opportunities for replicable skills in permaculture, natural building, community collaboration, earth arts, sustainability life skills, wilderness awareness, etc.

• Host events, meetings, retreats, and performances so that aligned organizations can gather in a restorative space supporting transformative values.
• 1920 visit-hours/month, grossing $2680/mo, 10 intimate partnerships and 40 volunteers.

Visitors of all ages experience a set of functioning systems that illustrate integration between human and non-human habitats, including food production, dense residential communities, water management, energy cycles, construction, native habitat, transportation, etc.

• Create healing resources integrating various modalities, accessible regardless of income, by which body and soul can relax into a wiser appreciation of the many relations that make the world. These include ecotherapy, body and energy work, food celebrations, spiritual practice, cottage agroindustries, etc.
• 600 person-hours/mo, gross $9000/mo, 15 intimate partnerships, 30 volunteers.

• systematic protocols for data gathering, analysis, documentation, and dissemination regarding progress towards sustainability goals regarding all projects above, as well as skills acquisition, value shift, psychosocial wellbeing, etc.
• 5 peer-reviewed articles per year, 5 informational pamphlets per year, acquired by 200 people per month, $1000 per month gross, 5 intimate partnerships, 20 volunteers.