TLC Farm is excited to host nationally-renowned permaculture expert, Toby Hemenway, for three one day workshops this summer.

Each class runs from 10 am- 5 pm. Classes are $75 each, or $200 for the series. Pre-registration is required - for workshop details and registration information – visit www.tryonfarm.org, email workshops@tryonfarm.org or call 503-245-3847

*Getting Starting in Permaculture* June 7

Join us in an all-day workshop covering the basics of permaculture. You'll learn how nature can teach us how to design sustainable gardens, homes, and communities. Topics will include permaculture principles, design methods, examples of permaculture sites, and how to use nature's patterns in sustainable design. Participants will explore permaculture design through lecture, discussion, images, and hands-on exercises.

*Building Perfect Garden Soil* July 19

This full-day workshop will begin by showing exactly what makes up a perfect garden soil for growing sturdy, healthy plants that lets gardeners avoid pest and disease problems. We'll look at the key players in fertile gardens: the marvelous creatures that build our soil, and we'll learn how to keep them happy and abundant. We'll also see how to make great compost, and cover many other techniques for soil building, such as sheet mulch, compost teas, cover crops, and more.

*Designing a Food Forest* August 2

Food forests are life-filled places that not only provide food for people, but habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits. This workshop will cover the basics of designing, planting, and maintaining a many-layered woodland garden of fruit and nut trees, perennial and annual vegetables, and flowers.

About Toby Hemenway:
Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is also Scholar in Residence at Pacific University.

After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces.

A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches permaculture and consults and lectures on ecological design throughout the country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener, and he is on the board of directors for TLC Farm.