Activation Tour

Join us at Tryon Life Community (TLC) Farm located just next to the Tryon State Park from 3-5pm on October 10th. TLC Farm is a seven-acre land project and non-profit event center, surrounded by the beautiful forest of Tryon Creek State Park. Our public Village Green includes a large yurt, outdoor kitchen, tea house, bonfire area, earthen buildings, stage and Portland’s first public composting toilets. The majority of the land is open space, including gardens, orchards, chicken and goat areas, and fields. (Houses on the land host independent residential collectives, Cedar Moon and the Sacred Lands Alliance.) TLC Farm is a unique community-created venue for public and private events — great for workshops, retreats, weddings, birthdays, meetings, parties and more. We also teach workshops and lead educational field trips, and host regular workparties and community events. Our Willow Creek Forest School is an outdoor, place-based farm and forest kindergarten for children ages 3-5, from September to June. TLC Farm programs and land tending are community created and couldn’t happen without volunteers and donations. Thank you for your participation!

On Wednesday night, join us at Traditions Fair Trade in Olympia for a potluck and social hour. Joe will also be able to set the context, and we can begin our conversations towards weaving an Olympia watershed organizing group.  Joe is a complexity researcher with a unique academic background in atmospheric sciences, physics, philosophy, and cognitive linguistics. In 2020, he launched an initiative to regenerate 500,000 hectares of land in Barichara, Colombia, and in 2023, he founded the Design School for Regenerating Earth. A long-time resident of Seattle, Joe is returning from Colombia with a wealth of inspiration and strategies and is eager to share what he has learned about the potential to interweave bioregional communities for a thriving world.

Events in Olympia are forthcoming! If you’d like to be involved in the planning, add yourself as an organizer, and drop Audrey an email. If you’d like to sign up for updates, please just RSVP, and we’ll send updates as soon as the events are ready. 

Meet at Spiral Mound near 5th and Simmons, use Heritage Park parking lot on 5th.  Join us for a walk and talk about the Native history of this place, and a viewing of the salmon runs. Heritage Park is a 24-acre state-owned park adjacent to the State Capitol Campus, Capitol Lake and downtown Olympia. It is the northern extension of the historic West Capitol Campus. Joe is a complexity researcher with a unique academic background in atmospheric sciences, physics, philosophy, and cognitive linguistics. In 2020, he launched an initiative to regenerate 500,000 hectares of land in Barichara, Colombia, and in 2023, he founded the Design School for Regenerating Earth. A long-time resident of Seattle, Joe is returning from Colombia with a wealth of inspiration and strategies and is eager to share what he has learned about the potential to interweave bioregional communities for a thriving world.

Join us at Traditions Fair Trade in Olympia for discussions and planning. Joe will also be able to set the context, and we can begin our conversations towards weaving an Olympia watershed organizing group.  Joe is a complexity researcher with a unique academic background in atmospheric sciences, physics, philosophy, and cognitive linguistics. In 2020, he launched an initiative to regenerate 500,000 hectares of land in Barichara, Colombia, and in 2023, he founded the Design School for Regenerating Earth. A long-time resident of Seattle, Joe is returning from Colombia with a wealth of inspiration and strategies and is eager to share what he has learned about the potential to interweave bioregional communities for a thriving world.

Meet by the boat launch in the parking lot.  Join us for a native plant walk at Woodard Bay, led by Mariana Harvey, of the Yakama nation.  Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area was designated by the legislature in 1987, one of the first in the state.  A wildlife sanctuary that is just minutes from downtown Olympia, this 922-acre site protects habitat ranging from marine shoreline and wetlands to mature second growth forest. The site has a rich and varied human history that includes Native Americans, early settlers to southern Puget Sound and the logging and shellfish industries.   Woodard Bay provides habitat for shorebirds and songbirds, harbor seals, river otters, bald eagles, a large maternity colony of bats, and one of the most significant heron rookeries in the state. Three hiking trails are within the natural area: a paved road used as trail, a forested loop-trail, and another that is barrier-free, overlooking Woodard Bay. Trails may be closed seasonally to protect nesting herons and eagles.