Tryon Life Community Farm

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Aug 9, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$167,691

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Community Capacity Building program. We share this land and our experience with others to cross-pollinate between people and groups, build the sustainability movement, and offer an accessible and inspiring place for groups to use for their own gatherings. Forum: We have made this unique place available to a broad diversity of people to use for their meetings, parties, trainings, personal and organizational retreats and events. A sample of groups include: allied Native American communities using the sweatlodge; meditation groups coming here for retreat; Pacific University and Lewis & Clark College New Student Orientation groups visiting; Portland State University student group hosting their strategic planning and training sessions; Generation Waking Up (part of the international Pachamama sustainability movement) held a 2-day training for 40 youth; 4-H club hosting their annual meeting; Teachers using our facilities to host facilitation, consensus and group process trainings; Birthdays and Anniversaries being celebrated in the Village Green; and much more. Events: TLC Farm hosted two large interactive celebrations in 2012: Bloom Spring Festival and our Holiday Open House. These large and lively gatherings weave together music, art, education, food and family fun for hundreds of participants.

Activity 3

Demonstration Program. *Organic Garden & Food Forest*: Maintained the large educational gardens and two Food Forests (multi-level perennial food production systems that mimic the production of a natural ecosystem). Tended the 40 young trees we grafted in 2011, in preparation for expanding the Food Forests. *Animal Husbandry*: TLC Farm is one of the only educational urban farms in the Portland area to provide access to a dairy goat herd. The goats provide city dwellers a rare opportunity to visit with and learn about traditional farm animals; the goats also remove invasive species by browsing blackberries. The four does gave birth in spring to eight baby goats who delighted visitors for months. The two doe kids were added to the resident herd. A rotating chicken flock also provides eggs & education. *Native Plant Restoration*:Began a systematic program, in coordination with the Tryon Creek Watershed Council, of eradicating blackberries from the conservation easement and replanting with native plants. *ReCode Oregon*: Recode worked hard throughout the state and with the Oregon DEQ to revise onsite sanitation regulations to allow for more accessible onsite sanitation, including writing the code for composting toilets that was included in the Oregon REACH code for energy efficiency.

Filer

EIN

20-1887272