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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

Turtle Cafe Lunch Days~ every Tuesday and Friday year round!

Thank you for all the amazing years of support and joy and celebration 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! Come Celebrate with us! This is our 22nd Anniversary year! We serve a delicious artistic local, wild and living foods lunch from 11:11am - 2:22pm. In deep appreciation, the Turtles

Live Music at the Turtle Cafe on special Tuesdays and Fridays

Lucious Lunch and Lifestyle Classes - Last Tuesdays of the Month

Fostering community and lifestyle change personalized to your needs. Focusing on fresh vital foods and being an agent for environmental integrity.

~Tuesdays from 11am -1pm on June 28th, July 26th, and August 30th

~Facilitated by Kelly Bradsher

~ Includes a lunch at Turtle Cafe!

~Learn how to integrate vitality into your daily life

~Suggested Donation $88 for all three classes

~ Drop In participation is welcome at $33/class

~Meet at the Turtle Cafe at 848 East 3rd Ave Durango

~ Topics may include: plant walk, juice making, yoga poses and breathing, simple meal ideas, green powered making.

~ For more questions, call 970-247-8395 or email turtlelakerefuge@yahoo.com

~ Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unisons-lunch-and-lifestyle-class-tickets-363779513317

Organic Land Stewardship Volunteer Projects

Please join us in harvesting the wild weeds in two of the local Organic Parks of Durango. It is a great way to help contribute to the organic lands movement, meet new people and learn about the edible and medicinal values of the wild plants. Thank you for joining us when you can!

Needham Park - May 18th, June 15th, July 13th, August 15th (from 9am - 12pm)

Brookside Park - June 1st, July 6th, August 3rd (from 9am - 12pm)

Cottonwood Park in Mancos - May 25th, June 8th, June 29th, July 20th, August 10th, August 31st (9am - 2pm)

Eagle Colorado Wild Plant and Mushroom Gathering August 6th - 8th, 2022

https://www.eaglemushroomfest.com

Telluride Mushroom Festival August 17th-21th, 2022 https://www.tellurideinstitute.org/telluride-mushroom-festival/

Local Wild Living Soil Educational Series

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

~ September 13, 2022 - October 26, 2022

~ 55 Hour Program

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

~ Overnight Field Trip on October 1st-2nd

~ Suggested Donation - $555 for all classes

~ Drop In Fee $33

For questions, please contact Katrina at turtlelakerefuge@yahoo.com or call 970-247-8395.

To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-wild-living-soil-program-tickets-307115018287

Katrina Blair's speaking events, classes and walkabouts will be updated as they are booked. Please email us at info@turtlelakerefuge.org 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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