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Mission Statement
Our mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.We are inspired to promote and practice sustainable ways of living honoring wild nature and the evolution of community. Examples of our work include growing, harvesting and preparing local, wild and living food for the community, educating about the great values of the wild edible and medicinal abundance available in our area, providing local microgreens for the public schools, restaurants and stores and educating about organic land stewardship practices through our project Bee Happy Lands. |
Current Events
Bee Happy Lands work party at Durango's organic parks - Participation welcome with land stewardship education and dandelion lemonade
Brookside Park - Wednesday, August 11th, 9am - 12pm
Needham Elementary School Park - Thursday, August 12th, 9am - 12pm
Wild Edible and Medicial Plant Field Trips
Saturday, July 31 th from 2-5pm - Meet at Turtle Cafe to carpool to location.
Please contact Katrina at 970-317-0988 for more information and to sign up
Durango Farmers Market
Every Saturday, beginning on May 8th from 8am -12pm and runs through October 30th. Held at the TBK parking lot between 8th and 9th Street in Durango. For more information please visit: http://www.durangofarmersmarket.com/
Good Medicine Confluence 2021
July 16-19, 2021 - An amazing Online Event filled with Herbal Education, Health Assessments & Treatments. Making Your Own Herbal Remedies, Plant Identification, Phytochemistry, Medicinal & Recreational Cannabis, Brewing & Mead Making, Medicinal Mushrooms, Peyote, Botanical Perfumery, Plant Magic & Mythos, Gourmand Cooking, Addressing Covid & Viral Infections. Please visit the schedule and details at: https://planthealer.org/intro.html
Telluride Mushroom Festival
August 18-22, 2021 The Telluride Mushroom Festival has been celebrating all things mycological, from the newest advancements in mushroom science to our famous mushroom cook-off. https://www.tellurideinstitute.org/telluride-mushroom-festival/
Cuisine Through Art and Time: Art and Archaeology of Food August 23-27, 2021 - A Crow Canyon Archaeology Event
Learn how wild foods and feasting events influence settlement patterns, cultural identity, and trade throughout the Southwest. Scholars: Sarah Oas, Kyle Bocinsky, Katrina Blair, Ray Naranjo. To register and find more information, please visit: https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/2020-travel-seminars
Eagle Mushroom and Wild Food Festival
August 27-29, 2021
Held in beautiful Eagle, Colorado this three day event will be an adventure that opens the doors to the wild edible foods and mushrooms of Colorado awakening our palates to the gourmet culinary potential and the healing influence of the earth.
Local Wild Living Soil Program
September 7th - October 28th, 2021
Learning through Nature's Wisdom * Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants * Permaculture * Holistic Health * Living Food Nutrition
~ Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays from 9am -12am
~ Investment: $1111
~ See the Syllabus here : http://www.turtlelakerefuge.org/retreat (Drop Ins are welcome for $33)
Contact Katrina Blair at turtlelakerefuge@yahoo.com or 970-247-8395 for more information.
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.