Turtle Lake Refuge is a non-profit, established in 2000, that promotes sustainable practices honoring the wild wisdom of nature and the health of the community. We aim to be a hub of education, inspiration and community collaboration. We achieve this by growing, harvesting and preparing local, wild and living food through our Turtle Cafe and Turtle Lake Community Farm. The Turtle Cafe, located in town, offers a delicious wild, local and living foods lunch

every Tuesday and Friday year round.

The Turtle Lake Community Farm is located 4 miles out of town, grows local produce and is a community gathering space. We sell our locally grown and hand made foods at many restaurants in town, health food stores, and at our booth at Durango Farmer's market. We offer classes teaching about the great values of the wild, edible, and medicinal abundance available in our area, permaculture and holistic health. We grow a variety of microgreens and provide them to local restaurants and stores in the area.

Bee Happy Lands is a project that provides organic weed mitigation service to public and private lands throughout Colorado.  Bee Happy Lands is a regenerative land stewardship service that eliminates the need to spray herbicides on land and focuses on sustainable life enhancing practices that increases fertility, stability, and diversity of the ecosystem.

Education is our primary focus through all of our efforts as we build community,

provide healthy foods and inspiration for learning to be better earth stewards

collectively both locally and globally.