upcoming events
Earth Day Festival
April 12, 2025
Time: 11am to 3pm
Location: Buckley Park​
Turtle Lake Refuge will have a booth!
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Earth Day Wild Edible Plant Walk
with Katrina Blair
April 15, 2025
Time: 3pm
Location: meet at the Colorado Trailhead in Durango​
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YOUNG ADULT
SUMMER EXPERIENCE
Are you a young adult (18+) looking for an exciting and new experience? Would you like to learn more about yourself, land and community-based living in this region? Swing into summer with us for a five-day immersion (May 23 - 27) at Turtle Lake Farm, just outside of Durango, Colorado.
During our time together you'll be exposed to community-based sustainable living, daily well-being practices including yoga and meditation, emotional and soulful growth, organic food and gardening, nutrition, herbalism and natural medicine/cosmetic making, primitive and land based skills, foraging, and so much more. All while having plenty of time to relax, connect and have fun in stunning pristine nature.
This is a residential, overnight program.
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Contact Jon & Joe with any questions: 330-418-8311 & paaschjb@gmail.com
Wild Plant Retreat
with Katrina Blair
July 11 - 13
Location: Silver Star Hut in La Plata Canyon
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Facilitated by Katrina Blair and staff
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Begins with lunch on Friday at 12pm at Turtle Cafe.
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Includes field trip to the Turtle Lake Community Farm
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Two nights stay at the hut
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Classes include: wild foraging, food prep, bodycare, and wild medicinal recipes.
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Retreat ends Sunday by 12 Noon.
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Lodging options: one private bedroom, bunks in the hut, or camping outside.
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$333
Local Wild Living Soil Program
Fall Course 2025
Learning through Nature’s Wisdom
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Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants * Permaculture * Holistic Health * Nutrition
~ September 23 – October 30, 2025
~ Includes Wilderness Overnight Field Trips
~ 88 Hour Program
~ Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays from 1pm to 4pm
~ Suggested Donation: $888
~ Register at https://events.humanitix.com/local-wild-living-soil-program
​Contact Katrina Blair at 970-247-8395 or visit turtlelakerefuge.org
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This six week program is a hands on exploration of wild edible and medicinal plants, living food nutrition, permaculture design and holistic health – an experiential journey of internal and external health.
We cover practical applications of topics including: harvesting wild foods for our daily diet, creating simple to gourmet living food recipes, making herbal medicines, building solar dehydrators, learning about soil mycology and mushrooms, making cultured and fermented recipes, as well as integrating holistic practices into our daily lives. Each day begins with a centering movement practice such as yoga, tai chi or meditation.
The program includes two wilderness overnight field trips for immersion learning about the wild plants in different ecosystems. It prepares students to be competent as a local, wild, and living food chef, to offer education on nutrition and holistic health, to lead wild food identification and medicinal preparation workshops, to practice permaculture design, to integrate healing modalities and incorporate deep earth-centered skills into daily life practices.​
Join us for this learning adventure with Nature as our greatest teacher!
Turtle Lake Refuge
848 East 3rd Ave Durango, CO
970-247-8395
weekly events
Acro Yoga
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Date: Every Thursday from 5pm to 7pm
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Location: Rocky Mountain Retreat - 848 East 3rd Ave
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by donation​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Qi Gong with Cristina San Pedro
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Date: Every Wednesday @ 6pm
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Location: Rocky Mountain Retreat - 848 East 3rd Ave
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Free​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Join us every Saturday morning for the Durango Farmers Market during the season
recent past events
Herbal Aphrodisiacs: Heart Celebration and Gift Making Workshop
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Date: Tuesday February 11
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Time: 6 to 9 pm
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Location: Turtle Lake Refuge - 848 East 3rd Ave
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Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/turtle-lake-refuge-7828548910​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Turtle Talent Show
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Please feel free to join us and participate in the Turtle Talent Show. It's a free event for sharing and witnessing our collective talents and inspirations with each other. Anyone from the community is welcome to perform and participate.
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Date: Monday November 11th, 5pm to 7 pm
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Location: front room at Turtle Lake Refuge, 848 East 3rd Ave in Durango, Colorado
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Free and open to the public​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Wild Wisdom of Weeds and Radical Remediation by Katrina Blair
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Hosted by the Bioregional Explorers Club
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Dates: Saturday November 23 @ 11am for mushroom foraging adventure and 7pm for evening presentation
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Forage Location : Please join us @10:45 on the west side (big parking lot side) of the Fairfax Good Earth grocery store - 720 Center Blvd, Fairfax, CA 94930 https://maps.app.goo.gl/cixt9jhVxjscwqYs7
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Potluck at 5pm, Slideshow at 7pm
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Potluck and Slideshow Location: 451 Meadow Way, San Geronimo, California
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By Donation
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West Marin Mushroom Foraging Collective Dinner and Plant Talk, followed by music making and merriment around the fire. Bring a sack lunch and something to share for a potluck dinner.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Winter Vitality Recipe Class with Katrina Blair
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Date: Tuesdays from 5:30pm to 7:00pm, January 7, 14, 21, 28 2025
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Location: Turtle Cafe, 848 East 3rd Ave, Durango, Colorado
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$111 for all 4 classes, or $33 for drop-ins
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Join us for this four series experiential class where we will learn new recipes using wild and local foods that support our health and personal immune system for the winter season
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Register here​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
​​Tree Planting and Reforestation Lecture:
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Intro to Miyawaki reforestation and indigenous agroforestry. Q&A to follow.
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Date: Saturday evening October 12 and Sunday all day October 13
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Location: Turtle Lake Farm - 53 Misty Lane
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Instructor: Coakee William Wildcat and Mother Tree Food and Forest.
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Suggested Donation: $15
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Details: Join us for two special events this weekend at Turtle Lake Farm (53 misty lane)! On Saturday from 530pm to 730pm we will have a pre workshop lecture on indigenous and modern approaches to planting trees and creating diverse forests. We will focus on indigenous agroforestry and Miyawaki reforestation. On Sunday join from 9am-4pm for a daylong workshop on planting trees from seeds, hands on learning, and much more. Please reach out with any questions.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
​Apple Pressing Harvest Potluck
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at Turtle Lake Community Farm, 53 Misty Ln, Durango, CO 81301
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October 20th, 3pm to 8pm
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Bring jugs, apples, and a potluck dish​​
​Wild Edible and Medicinal Plant Class with Katrina Blair
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October 22 @ 5:30pm
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by donation​​