Organic Lawn Care
Grassroots
Organic Lawn & Garden Care
Grassroots, a project of Turtle Lake Refuge, is a service providing organic land stewardship practices within our city and county. We offer organic compost tea, wild weed harvesting parties and bat boxes for yards and gardens, and parks. Locally made compost tea is a liquid fertilizer made from finished garden compost and worm castings. It provides nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in addition to a rainbow of trace minerals to the plants. Our focus is on creating healthy soil. When the underground ecosystem is vital and thriving, the grass and garden plants grow to their beauty and potential. The benefits of organic land stewardship practices are many! As a community we can lessen our toxic impacts on the honey bee population and local pollinators, reduce our impact in creating the "dead zones" discovered in the oceans largely due to petroleum-based chemical fertilizer run-off, and especially promote the health of our children.
Grassroots is happy to apply organic compost tea on your yard and gardens!
Please contact us at 970-247-8395.
Thank you so much for caring about our precious earth and all the living creatures who dwell here too!
Fort Lewis College Students applying the first compost tea application to Brookside Park in Durango, Colorado!
Turtle Lake Refuge along with dedicated City Council members, staff and volunteers from our community helped establish the movement of Chemical-Free parks in Durango. For several years, Turtle Lake Refuge collaborated with the City of Durango's Park and Recreation Department by volunteering our efforts in applying compost tea to Brookside Park, setting up bat boxes and leading weed harvesting parties. Currently, the City of Durango now has another park added to the list of Chemical-Free parks - Pioneer Park. The initial projects have lead into our organic lawn care business called Grassroots. Through Grassroots, we teach tolerance and value of the local weeds as well as nourish the root systems of businesses’ and homeowners’ lawns through applying compost tea.
The compost tea not only provides food for the lawn, but it also creates a healthy ecosystem in the soil, promoting life, aeration, and efficient distribution of minerals and vitamins for the plants and microorganisms underground.
For more information call Katrina Blair at Turtle Lake Refuge: 970-247-8395, or send us an email here.