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Basic pruning of fruit trees and grapes Workshop - Saturday January 5th - 1:00-3:00
Basic pruning of fruit trees and grapes.
with Bernard Bach
Saturday January 5th
1:00 -> 3:00
Bernard will be walking us through the basic ideas of pruning to keep trees in their optimum health.
Please bring tools you like to use.
Dress appropriately for the weather.
Bernhard Bach received a degree in horticulture in 1990, completed a Master woodland Manager course with the Yamhill Co. Extension Service in 1994 since then he managed small apple orchard and worked for a local retail nursery.
Sliding Scale: 10-$30
TLC Monthly Workshop Series
Welcome to our schedule of monthly workshops. We endeavor to be well-rounded in our exploration of what it takes to create a sustainable world, and hope that you will find both what you're looking for and what you never expected to find.
September 9-11
Plant Medicine & Disaster Herbalism
Come join us on the land for a weekend of learning about plant medicine, community building, and emergency preparedness. Friday will present several workshops with local herbalists, ranging from hands-on medicine making to plant meditation to facilitated conversations about herbalism, dynamics of privilege, and efforts for healing both people and place. Saturday & Sunday will be a two-day intensive, called Community and Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations, with Leah Wolfe.
September 18, 10am-4 pm
Food Preservation
Just in time for harvest! Learn about and practice various methods of food preservation, including canning, freezing, drying and long-term produce storage. Using TLC Farm's garden, orchard and outdoor kitchen as a classroom, this class will involve both discussion (your ideas, thoughts and wisdom invited!) and hands-on engagement with food preservation. Sliding scale fee of $15-50, with worktrade options available. Kids welcome!
Please register for the class (and contact me early if you are interested in work trade) at brenna@tryonfarm.org.
October 8-9
Natural Building
Get your hands dirty working with light/straw clay and earthen plaster to insulate & plaster our beautiful old barn. Class will be taught by expert earthen plasterer, Joshua Klyber (visit http://www.livingwallspdx.com to view Joshua's work). Contact brenna@tryonfarm.org to register.
November 12-13
Human Resources for the Revolution!
Apply Permaculture Principles to social relationships, from individual, to group to the ecosystem of movement of movements. Learn practical skills and share reflective, interactive experiences for exploring our social ecology.
Unless otherwise noted, workshops have a sliding scale fee of $20-60/day, with worktrade options available.
Many of our workshops are family-friendly, with children's activities included. Start and end times vary - please check this website for details about each workshop closer to its date.
Natural Building Workshop, October 8-9
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.
A discussion for parents: how to cultivate reverence with children around the holidays - Saturday Decmeber 8th - 2:30-4:00pm
A discussion for parents:
how to cultivate reverence with children around the holidays.
with Kelly Hogan
Saturday Decmeber 8th
2:30 -> 4:00
How do we cultivate spirituality in our holiday traditions?
Now that consumer culture has a firm hold on holiday festivities, we are called to create traditions for ourselves and our children that
reconnect us to the wisdom of the season. Kelly Hogan (Waldorf early childhood teacher and mother of two) will facilitate a conversation on this topic.
There is no fee for this event. Any donations will go directly to benefit TLC Farm.
***PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED***
ON-LINE:
http://tryonfarm.org/share/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=12
on-line registration cutoff is December 7th @5:00pm.
after that, please call: 503-245-3847
OR EMAIL:
workshops@tryonfarm.org
Animal Husbandry Workshop, VBC May 2008
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August Workshops: Preserving Summer's Bounty and Making Herbal Medicines
Join us for some fantastic August Workshops, focusing on Food and Herbs
Create Your own Pantry: two classes with Chris Musser from Lost Arts Kitchen
Saturday, August 8
Yes We Can (and Freeze and Dry): Preserve fruit for the winter 10am-1pm
In one class, learn to can, freeze, and dry fruit. We'll make Jam, freeze whole fruit, and make fruit leather, using seasonally available fruit
Lactofermentation: Naturally Preserving Summer's Bounty 2pm-4pm
In this class, we'll make lactofermented pickles, cabbage, kale, and
salsa! Try your hand at this ancient preservation technique that enhances
food's nutritional value and tastes delicious!
All participants will take home food they preserved. Cost is $40 for the morning class, $30 for the afternoon, or $60 for both
For More information about Lost Arts Kitchen: Slow Food Traditions for Modern Life, visit www.lostartskitchen.com.
Making Herbal Medicine with Judy BlueHorse Skelton
Sunday, August 9, 2-5 pm
Learn about traditional herbal medicine making, including teas, salves and tinctures, from extraordinary herbalist Judy BlueHorse.
$25 for the class, includes materials for medicines that you'll take home.
Herb Classes with Erico Schleicher of the Elderberry School
Basics of Botany and Wildcrafting, August 11th, 10am-1pm
Learn the basics of botany, then delve into the local plants and herbs of the Tryon Creek watershed during a plant walk in Tryon Creek State Park. $25 for the class.
Experience-based Herbalism, August 18th, 10 am- 1 pm
Learn about the properties of herbs through direct personal experience with the plants. Also discuss the role of a community herbalist and healer. $25 for the class.
Beginning Knitting Workshop - Sunday December 9th - 1:00-5:00pm
Beginning Knitting (ages 10 and up)
Sunday December 9th
with Sue Romas
1:00 -> 5:00pm
For beginners or those who want a refresher. Knitting is fun, relaxing, easy, and a great way to keep your hands busy on the bus or in meetings! Learn to knit a scarf or a dish cloth, just in time for the holidays. We'll cover casting on, basic stiches, color changing, casting off and a few fun tricks.
Taught by Sue Romas, farm resident, homemaking expert, and fiber artist. Sue's been knitting for twenty years and taught knitting at Urban Arts and Crafts in Kansas City, Mo.
this is a 4 hour class. Please bring a snack to share. Tea will be provided. Yarn and needles provided as part of the class fee.
Family friendly: Polite, non-disruptive children welcome. Others will be given chores to do.
***PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED***
ON-LINE:
http://tryonfarm.org/share/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=13
on-line registration cutoff is Saturday December 8th @ 5:00pm.
after that, please call: 503-245-3847
OR EMAIL:
workshops@tryonfarm.org
Cob Oven Workshop, May 2-3
Learn to build your own backyard earthen oven!
From foundation to finish, this two day workshop led by Joshua Klyber and Bonsai Matt will give participants a hands-on education in all they need to know to build their own ovens. Using earthen materials - sand, clay and straw - workshop participants will build a cob oven that is fantastic for baking and pizza!
Workshop runs from 10-4 on Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3. $75 for both days. Please pre-register by calling 503-245-3847 or email brenna@tryonfarmorg.
About the instructors: The two teachers bring a a great combination of skills in earthen building. Bonsai Matt has led cob oven workshops across the country and is a master pizza-baker in the ovens. Joshua Klyber is an expert with earthen plaster and related materials. See his handiwork at livingwallspdx.com.
Community Workshops
To see an up-to-date list of scheduled workshops, see our workshop calendar. From there you can also register.
TLC Farm is an amazing place to learn ideas and practices for growing sustainable culture. We host a wide variety of experienced practitioners who teach in their fields of expertise. Past workshop topics have included:
- Earthen plasters
- Wild fermented foods
- Medicinal plant identification
- Introduction to Bonsai
- Basic Gardening
- Permaculture Design
- Carpentry for women
- Primitive Skills
- Cheesemaking
- Chickens!
- Needle Felting
- Bird language and tracking
- Earth Activist Training (a permaculture design course)
- Plant wisdom and earth songs
- Zen meditation
- African drumming
- Food forest design
- Indigenous lifeways
- and many more!
Most workshops ask for a donation on a sliding scale or offer work-trade, to assist in paying for the presenter, facilities, and materials.
Want to present a workshop? email workshops@tryonfarm.org or call our office at 503-245-3847.
Embodying Gaia Women’s Circle series
Embodying Gaia Women’s Circle
An Outdoor Yoga Series Connecting Body, Earth & Spirit
Gather in this sacred women’s circle to awaken and deepen the intimate exchange between your body and the earth. Through a blend of breathing, creative movement, yoga, sensory expansion, land and seasonal awareness and meditation we will directly and deeply participate with the animated life and elements around us.
***May 14th -June 18th, every Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 pm***
Week 1 - May14th: The Land is Alive! Spring Rejuvenation Through Breath
Week 2 - May 21st: The Dance of Giving and Receiving: Finding Balance Through the Exchange Between Body & Earth
Week 3 - May 28th: Mystery, Imagination and Wonder: Experiencing Life Anew in Nature’s Birthing Season
Week 4 - June 4th: The Healing Power of the Earth: Finding Solace Through Slowing Down
Week 5 - June 11th: Earth & Body as Teachers: Walking the Path of Wisdom
Week 6 - June 18th: Earth & Body as Home: Aligning your Body to the Earth’s Body
Location: Tryon Life Community Farm - 11640 SW Boones Ferry Road - Portland, Oregon - 97219
Cost: $120
Pre-registration required, class limited to 10 students
For more information and to register contact:
Megan Hubbs, 503-473-7982
greenfarmmama@gmail.com
About the instructor: Megan Hubbs, M.S.
Megan designed this circle inspired by her own sacred connection to the land. Drawing from her 9 years of experience in the sustainable agriculture field as well as running an educational farm in SE Portland, Megan aspires to share with others the connection between ecology and health. Megan is also a certified Hatha Yoga instructor and draws from her 10 years of practice and teaching to create an avenue by which to expand the experience of the earth and body connection. In addition, Megan recently received a Master’s degree in a Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning focused in garden-based education. Ultimately, Megan hopes a renewed connection to our bodies and the earth can help direct us towards a more sustainable future.
Feedback and participation welcome! Please send bug reports to web@tryonfarm.org
