Opportunity Details
TLC Farm Medicinal Plant Restoration (age 5+) *MLK 2013*
Join us in honoring the legacy of Dr. King through meaningful service to our community: "Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The TLC Farm is a very special community project at the convergence of forest, rural, and urban lands. The boundary of this organic community farm has been overwhelmed by invasive blackberries. These have been cut down and a combination of goat grazing and hand work to remove to remaining root crowns will prepare the area for a native medicinal plant garden.
Volunteers will help plant native plants in areas that are already prepared and pull blackberry crowns and ivy elsewhere.
Gloves and tools (shovels, pulaskis, loppers) and snacks will be provided. Please bring drinking water and wear weather and task-appropriate clothes.
This project is in partnership with the Tryon Life Community Farm, Tryon Creek Watershed Council and West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District. At TLC Farm, Portland's sustainability movements are creating one example of how urban density human habitat can coexist with thriving food systems and native ecologies. Their demonstration projects, all of which are workshopped and volunteer-run, illustrate how specific technologies and practices work, and how they can interconnect.
Project Requirements:
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You must be 5 years of age or older to attend this project; any volunteer under age 18 must attend with a parent or adult chaperone.
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All volunteers are required to sign an MLK Volunteer Waiver (print it now, fill it out, and bring it with you to save time during project check in). Volunteers under 18 are required to bring a waiver signed by their parent or legal guardian.
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If you plan to bring children/additional volunteers you MUST reserve slots for them. The best way to do this is to create a Volunteer Team, then sign up your team for this project. Questions? Email teams@handsonportland.org
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are responsible for ensuring that everyone signed up through your team attends - only sign up team members who have confirmed their availability. Teams that repeatedly sign up, but do not show up or show up with fewer volunteers than they signed up, may be removed. To add or remove team members from a project: log in to your volunteer account and click "Manage My Team" next to the appropriate upcoming opportunity.
Click "Sign Up" below to reserve your spot! Need help signing up? Call 503-200-3355.
Age Minimum (with Adult): 5+, Minimum Age:18+
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