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Winter Schedule:

Sunday: (Self-organized) Family Picnics.  Open to the public from 11-4:30 to drop in, enjoy the land, bring games, picnics, etc.
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Scheduled class visits and events 
Wednesday: Scheduled class visits and events 
Thursday: Scheduled class visits and events 
Friday: Open to the public from 11-4:30 to drop in and take a self-guided tour.  Sometimes Garden Workparties (call first).
Saturday: Often Scheduled Work Parties.  Open to the public from 11-3:00 to drop in, join the work party or take a self-guided tour.  Call ahead for workparty schedule: 503.245.3847

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning for urban transformation:

Tryon Life Community Farm as testbed and demonstration

What can sustainable urban density look like in Portland?

How can we maximize the carrying capacity of dense human habitation and minimize unbalanced flows of resources, energy, and waste?
How can we efficiently overlap and beautifully intermingle residences, agriculture, native habitat, education, arts, community-building, sustainable economies, and spiritual relation with the earth?
How can we grow relations of respect, understanding, and collaboration, even across important differences of perspective and value?

TLC Farm is an opportunity for our communities to combine many innovative social, physical, and ecological processes for transforming lifeworlds into a holistic, accessible, and practical experience of a possible future.

TLC Farm's strategic planning process is intended to accomplish two main tasks. We:

draw on our wealth of allies and partners -- organizations, experts, and stakeholders -- to develop a comprehensive plan outlining a physical, programmatic, and organizational strategy by which to accomplish shared vision; and
build experience with and relationships for practical cooperation among Portland communities and movements as we move beyond single-issue silos and emerge into the living fabric of another (possible) world.

We want you to join us with your wisdom, your experience, and most of all your passion! Our staged planning process offers a variety of forms of engagement for those with differing amounts of time available: we'll work creatively to get you involved.

Our first strategic plan was developed in January, 2005. After the land we occupy was protected in January 2006, we initiated a broad-based six-month process to develop a more specific plan in collaboration with many stakeholders throughout the region's sustainability movements. Currently (2007), we are refining the documents developed through that process to apply for a full Conditional Use Master Plan with the city. Please see attached files below.

If not now, when? If not here, where?

Schedule for 2006 planning: Summer solstice (June 17, 2006) to winter solstice.

Process: Seven strongly-facilitated large monthly meetings will focus on generating creative ideas, collaboratively assessing them in the context of goals and values, and developing understanding and connection between different approaches and attitudes. Between large meetings, smaller working groups will transform the various ideas into substantive plans, for iterative review and improvement.

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Our Niche

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;

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Urban Ecology

TLC Farm exists because of the commitment and energy of Portland's broad network of organizations, movements, and citizens committed to a transformation of our urban ecology. It is already living proof of the potential we hold when we work together. Now, we have an opportunity to actualize that potential, to use this place and project as a catalyst for the emergence of deeper and more collaborative relations among varied communities with a common goal for sustainable urban density to become more than a slogan: a living ecosystem of change.

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Mission

Tryon Life Community Farm grows community learning in Portland while preserving common green space, restoring native ecosystems, and demonstrating sustainable urban density living.