Native educator and herbalist, Judy BlueHorse Skelton, shares traditional uses of native plants for food, medicine, craft and ceremony to nourish, heal, and regenerate personal, family and community well-being.

With TLC Farm and Tryon Creek Forest as our classroom, we’ll explore the gifts each season offers and learn how to integrate ancient knowledge and contemporary nutritional/lifestyle research into our daily lives. This is the third in a four-part seasonal series, but each class is also a stand-alone experience.

Drawing from the Medicine Wheel and indigenous gathering cycles and calendars, participants will develop a seasonal living plan that resonates with the rhythms of our region.

This seasonal workshop will focus on the coming of Spring, including:
Plant walks to identify and meet our Plant relations;
Medicine-making activities focused on spring tonic greens, including nettles & chickweed; and
Permaculture approaches to herbal gardening.

Sliding scale, $30 -$50, for the 3-hour workshop, with a $10 deposit..  Herbal tea will be served, and bring your own snack/lunch as needed. To register please email workshops@tryonfarm.org or call (503)245-3847.

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.

Welcome to TLC Farm's Spring & Summer workshop schedule! We hope to see you here.

Please pre-register for all workshops. For workshop details and registration information – visit www.tryonfarm.org, email workshops@tryonfarm.org or call 503-245-3847.

Primitive Skills Series with Caleb Schulten
May 23: Learn how to make cordage from available natural fibers. Practice using hand & bow drills, flint & steel.
May 30: Make your own hand drill fire kit, and practice fire making. Bring a pocket knife.
June 6: Introduction to flint knapping. Practice making arrowheads out of obsidian – bring safety goggles
Each class is from 10 am -2 pm, $15-30 sliding scale.

June 6: Needle Felting with Kelly Hogan
Learn a great new fiber art - create whimsical creatures from raw wool using a needle. Supplies included. 2:30-4:30, $15.

Permaculture Series with Toby Hemenway
June 7: Getting Started in Permaculture. You'll learn how nature can teach us how to design sustainable gardens, homes, and communities. Topics include permaculture principles, design methods, examples of permaculture sites, and how to use nature's patterns in sustainable design

July 19: Creating Perfect Soil through Permaculture
This workshop will show exactly what makes up a perfect garden soil for growing sturdy, healthy plants that lets gardeners avoid pest and disease problems, and discuss how to make great compost, and cover many other techniques for soil building.

August 2: Designing a Food Forest
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.
Each class runs from 10 am - 5 pm. $75 per class or $200 for the series.

June 13: Living with the Gifts of the Seasons with Judy BlueHorse Skelton
The first in a four part seasonal series drawing from the Medicine Wheel and indigenous gathering cycles and calendars, participants will develop a seasonal living plan that resonates with the rhythms of our region. Includes plant walks and identification for medicinal and food use, and much more.
9 am – 1pm, $50.

June 27: Fire Science and Rocket Stoves with Ernie and Erica Wisner
Learn how to build your own super-efficient rocket stove! We'll check
out (and fire up) TLC Farm's rocket stoves, go over the fire science:
combustion, heat transfer, efficiencies of fuel, labor, and materials,
and explore clever biofueled devices from around the world. Then it's
your turn: with bricks, cob, wood, and metal, we'll make our own
fireplaces, stove cores, and clean-burning campfires. For more information about the presenters, visit: www.ernieanderica.info
10 am -4 pm, $60-90 sliding scale, lunch included.

August 8: Creating your own pantry with Lost Arts Kitchen,
Savor the abundance of summer and fall all year long! Learn various food preservation methods including canning, pickling, fermentation and freezing. 10-4, $40-60 sliding scale.

All workshops take place at TLC Farm – 11640 SW Boones Ferry Road, Portland, OR 97219

This summer TLC Farm will be hosting a special program for girls on their journey to becoming young women. Moon Blossom is a rite of passage designed for girls ages 9-14. The girls will be engaged in self-discovery through crafting, making music, working in the garden, hiking, cooking, and exploring tools to build self esteem. Within a positive, girl-focused community, we will connect with the natural world, and consider what it means to be coming of age as a woman in today's world.

We will gather in the beautiful outdoors daily 10-4pm Tues-Thurs, Friday overnight and we end with the parents joining us on Saturday noon-2pm.

• hike outdoors
• make spirit dolls
• make plant medicine
• play music in drum circle
• hold girls council
• storytelling around campfire
• experience sweat ceremony
• journal, go within and reflect
• and more!

Camp Dates:

• July 27-31 ages: 11-14 (sign up by July 1st)
• Aug 24-28 ages: 9-12 (sign up by Aug 1st)
Cost: $350-250 sliding scale as needed

Sign up now! : contact MoonBlossom@tryonfarm.org or call 503-944-9312