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Mission Statement

Our mission is to celebrate the connection between

personal health and wild lands.

We promote sustainable practices honoring wild wisdom of nature and the health of the community. Examples of our work include growing, harvesting and preparing local, wild and living food through our Turtle Cafe open for lunch every Tuesday and Friday, educating about the great values of the wild edible and medicinal abundance available in our area, providing local microgreens and wild food products for the public schools, restaurants and stores and providing organic land stewardship throughout the Southwest through the project, Bee Happy Lands.

Current Events

As our mission and project continues to gather momentum, we offer our gratitude to all the generosity over the years that makes us who we are. We have been gifted by so much generous volunteer service from our community and we are so grateful! Because of this amazing support, we are able to serve our community so well! We are so appreciative of all the generous efforts of so many people who have dedicated their time, their knowledge and their life force towards the health of body, community and earth.

Thank you to everyone for the support and joy and celebrations of local wild and living foods! Thank you for participating in creating health for ourselves, our community and the planet! Thank you for being alive and connecting to the vital life force of nature's wisdom! One way that we serve our community is through celebrating! Come Celebrate with us!

We continue to serve a delicious, local, wild and living foods lunch from 11:11am - 2:22pm every Tuesday and Friday. We continue to grow local microgreens for our community. We continue to offer education in the fields of sustainable living, permaculture, holistic health, edible and medicinal plants. Our continued passion and purpose directs us to commit to quality of life for all beings. In deep appreciation, the Turtles

Turtle Cafe Lunch Days~ every Tuesday and Friday all winter! Our cafe is in the back patio at 848 East 3rd Ave. in Durango. We offer lunch all year round! Come inside to our greenhouse on cold winter days to enjoy the fresh oxygen from our growing microgreens and the sunny warmth coming through the windows! We also serve outside in the patio when the weather allows!

We can deliver lunches!

Please give us a call at 970-247-8395

Live Music at the Turtle Cafe on special Tuesdays and Fridays at 848 East 3rd Ave in the back patio from 11:11am - 2:22pm.

Turtle Talent Show

~ Saturday, January 28th, 2023 from 5pm -8pm

~ Held at 848 East 3rd Ave in the Front Room of the House

~ By donation

~ Healthy drinks and snack provided by Turtle Lake Refuge

The Turtle Talent show is a talent sharing night in a safe and welcoming environment to express your talents with a friendly community. We encourage music, poetry, skits, stories, acting, and any additional expressions of artistic creativity. Turtle Lake Refuge will be serving healthy locally made drinks and locally made appetizer snacks to nourish our performers and audience. Our goal is to nourish our bodies with good food and drink, support our sense of belonging by connecting with good community and expand our human potentiality by witnessing and sharing heart felt expressions.

Early Spring Alive and Wild Class

February 1st - March 1st, 2023 (4 classes - Feb. 1, 8, 15, and March 1)

Wednesdays from 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Held at Turtle Cafe 848 East 3rd Ave. Durango

Please join Katrina Blair in this hands on class learning how to make alive and wild food recipes for primal optimal health. Learn or refresh your sprouting skills and grow micro greens to bring in the fresh green life into your diet. This class welcomes the renewal of vitality and beginnings of spring into our lives.

Please Register at : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/early-spring-alive-and-wild-class-tickets-499714859597

Herbal Aphrodisiacs Class

~ Create luscious herbal aphrodisiac blends in this hands on workshop. Learn the healing and energizing properties of herbal aphrodisiacs like Damiana, Cohosh, Hawthorn, Cacao, and more. Make a special love potion for your Valentine!

~ Friday, February 10, 2023 from 6-9pm

~Taught by Lenore Anderson, Clinical Herbalist

~ Held at Turtle Cafe 848 East 3rd Ave. Durango

~ Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/herbal-aphrodisiac-class-tickets-523984039367

Extra Special Valentine's Lunch

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 from 11:11am - 2:22pm

~ Delicious Aphrodisiac Meal

~ Rose Misting

~ Love Notes

~ Wild Raw Chocolate Dessert

~ Live Music

~ Suggested Donation $15-20

Local Wild Living Soil Educational Series

Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants * Permaculture * Holistic Health * Nutrition

~March 21, 2023 - May 3, 2023

~ 88 Hour Program

~ Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5:30pm - 8:00pm

~ Overnight Field Trips

~ Suggested Donation - $888 for all classes

~ Drop In Fee $33

~ Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-wild-living-soil-spring-program-tickets-523986948067

For questions, please contact Katrina at turtlelakerefuge@yahoo.com or call 970-317-0988.

Katrina Blair's speaking events, classes and walkabouts will be updated as they are booked. Please email us turtlelakerefuge@yahoo.com at if you would like her to come to your area for a slide show, a wild food feast, a plant walk or multi-day wild food walkabout.

Tickets to our upcoming events, when available, can be purchased on our EventBrite: http://turtlelakerefuge.eventbrite.com

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