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The Tryon Creek State Park is a 650-acre ecosystem that includes a wide range and diverse family of tress, a creek, meadows and gardens. TLC Farm, as it can be shortened to, tries to demonstrate how people in both urban and rural areas can live in a sustainable way. Located just a few minutes away from our very campus, TLC Farm holds sustainability related events, gives tours to local schools and corporations and is open for public view and interaction during certain times of the day throughout the week. Tryon Farm takes the word community to a whole different level. Although it is seen as a recreational space to outsiders, Tryon Farm serves as a home for many individuals. With houses and even a school for the children, the residents of Tryon quite literally live off of the land. They plant their own fruits and vegetables, and make sure use and reuse as much as they can in order to have as little waste as possible. The children that attend school there learn through nature and they are outside every single day, weather playing no factor in this aspect. The residents of Tryon Farm have no outside luxuries, and see no need for them which makes them extremely unique in our modern society.
Questions to Consider:
We have been learning and talking in class a lot about what makes for a healthy community and what factors contribute to a healthy place. A few questions we have considered ourselves, and now pose to you are:
- Can this farm be considered a “healthy place”?
- Do the resources they utilize and their practices of growing their own food and using the land as a teacher to their children, make for good community?
- And finally, although this is an example of sustainability, is it a realistic lifestyle? Can anyone choose to live this way?
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