Organizations Filed Purposes:
TLC Farm brings people together to root into relationships with each other and the land, by sharing tools for community-based sustainability and social change, and tending resilient ecosystems.
*Willow Creek Forest School* Our nature immersion pre-school program serves 10 children & their families each year. *Educational Workshops* Hosted numerous workshops on a host of skills, including mushroom cultivation, mason bees, orchard care, and invasive plant removal. *Field Trips* Continued to offer field trips to schools, universities, seniors, and other interested groups. A highlight was hosting 60 high school writers from around the country who were taking part in Lewis & Clark College's Fir Acres Writing Program.
COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM. *Event Hosting* Our Village Green venue continued to be a vibrant place for community groups to meet and learn, including the Elderberry School for Botanical Medicine, PSU's Indigenous Studies students, Ancestral Healing workshops, as well as birthday parties, yoga classes, movie nights and other gatherings. In addition, TLC Farm put on several interactive community events including monthly potlucks and story sharing events, an Apple Festival to celebrate our abundant harvest of heirloom apples with apple cider pressing, an apple pie contest, apple tastings and tour of the orchard, and a winter Open House, where participants toured the land, had a slide show detailing the year, and learned more about TLC Farm's programs. *Fiscal Sponsorship* TLC Farm continues to be the fiscal sponsor for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women USA, and hosted their organizing meetings and monthly girls' program, Staying Sacred, which uses cultural education and self-defense to empower native girls and teens.
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. *Sustainable Structures*: Hosted monthly Hand Prayers gatherings to tend and create intentional outdoor gathering places by listening and acting in mindful reciprocity with the land. *Organic Garden & Food Forest*: In collaboration with other users of the land, maintained the large educational gardens and two Food Forests (multi-level perennial food production systems that mimic the production of a natural ecosystem). Enjoyed the second year of production of the 40 fruit trees planted by land partners in 2014. *Animal Husbandry*: TLC Farm is one the only educational urban farms in the Portland area to provide access to a dairy goat herd, which is very popular with all visitors, as well as an important opportunity to visit with and learn about traditional farm animals. Our roving chicken flock also provides eggs, education, and fertilization. *Increased Land Access* Re-graded and re-graveled our very challenging driveway to make it more accessible to all participants; began planning for building new parking area in 2020. *Invasive plant removal* Continued our systematic program of eradicating blackberries from most of the land and replanting with native plants, by the use of hand work and our wethers (castrated male goats) who eat down blackberry patches as they move across the land.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Borden Beck | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Katherine Flanagan | President | 1 | $0 |
| Paige Evans | Board member | 1 | $0 |
| Tyradecht Hendrick | Board member | 1 | $0 |
| Elona Trogub | Board member | 1 | $0 |
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