$358 raised by 6 donors
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$20,000 Goal
Our mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.
Turtle Lake Refuge is a non-profit that promotes sustainable practices honoring the wild wisdom of nature and the health of the community. We achieve this by growing, harvesting and preparing local, wild and living food through our Turtle Cafe and Turtle Lake Community Farm. We sell our local 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 serve lunch at the cafe in town Tuesdays and Fridays year round. We provide an organic weed mitigation service to public and private lands throughout Colorado with our Bee Happy Lands project. Bee Happy Lands is an alternative to spraying herbicides and instead focuses on regenerative land stewardship practices that increases fertility, stability, and diversity of the landscape.
Our mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.
Pat Blair and Margie Aeby began the Rocky Mountain Retreat in 1989 as a healing retreat center to support people in their health goals. Katrina Blair fell in love with wild plants in her teens and became passionate about teaching their values to the community. She completed a MA in Holistic Health Education and founded Turtle Lake Refuge to continue the healing intentions of her mom and aunt.
Organization name
Rocky Mountain Retreat dba Turtle Lake Refuge
1989
Tax id (EIN)
84-1141304
Category
Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Environment, Education, Youth Development, Community Improvement & Capacity Building
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
848 East 3rd AvenueDurango, CO, US