Members are invited July 19th-21st for our annual members appreciation weekend! Live Music on Friday and Saturday nights from 8-midnight at the pavilion. 

Friday night we welcome The River Arkansas 

The four-piece each skillfully showcases their craft while seamlessly bonding together as a band. Bolder Beat noted that "Together, they give off a heartfelt and wholesome sound which resonates with the Colorado lifestyle of mountain life meets the pavement."

Saturday night will include a live performance from Float Like a Buffalo.

Float Like a Buffalo is a Denver-based 6-piece, 9-instrument, high-energy Funk Rock band. Our style is rock with funk, ska, reggae, and jam influences. Nods to the funk of Lettuce and The Motet, jam of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, rock of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chicago Transit Authority, soul of James Brown, & high-energy guitar licks of Jimi Hendrix all combine to make a unique sound that's impossible not to dance to.

Saturday, May 4th, 2024 at the Everson Ranch

It is that time of the year again: Please come and join us for a fun day of celebrating the 2024 International World Naked Gardening Day at the Everson Ranch. At this annual event you can experience gardening in the open or just spend some time at the ranch. We would appreciate your help clearing the garden beds in preparation for planting flowers and vegetables in the greenhouses and in the field.

The ranch will open at 9:00am. We start to work at 9:30am and continue as long as people like to help that day.

This is a free, fun, lighthearted and liberating event. Gardeners and non gardeners of all ages are welcome!

On this day gardeners all over the world are getting together to shed some or all their clothes to attend to the gardens and connect with the natural world. You might want to dress in layers since the weather in early May is unpredictable. It could be warm, mild, cold, windy, warm, snowy, and all of the above on the same day.

Please bring: Solid shoes, sunscreen, sun hat, sun glasses, water bottle, and gardening gloves. You might like to bring your lunch to enjoy after gardening. After lunch there will be a tour of the ranch for those that are interested.

If you are thinking of trying naked gardening or just would like to experience working in the garden at the Everson Ranch, please come and join us!

Everson Ranch, 29398 C.R. 61, Moffat, Colorado 81143
(Sabine Borchers/garden manager/ranch caretaker)

The Everson Ranch is hosting the following workshop:

Backyard Gardening with Mushrooms

on Sunday June 9th from 10am-1pm.

This mushroom inoculation course will consist of a brief overview of the Kingdom/Queendom Fungi and its importance within many facets of our lives and well-being, as well as a short demonstration of how to effectively inoculate mycelium on a small area of land to grow mushrooms locally, outside, in the San Luis Valley and beyond. Tylor, Daniellen, and their son Boletus will engage the participants of this workshop at the Everson Ranch to leave a lasting imprint through education and practical knowledge about Fungi. Their family owned and operated mushroom farm, Alpine Valley Mushrooms, will be set up with local mushroom products for sale as well.
This is a free event, donations to support the presenter and the Everson Ranch are appreciated.

Location of the workshop: Everson Ranch, 29398 County Road 61, Moffat, CO 81143
(Sabine Borchers, garden manager/ranch caretaker)

The San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado is a huge, high-altitude valley extending north to south for over 100 miles on into New Mexico. It is primarily rural farmland mostly irrigated by an aquifer under the valley floor. It is bordered on the east by the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and on the west by the much older San Juan mountain range. The Great Sand Dunes National Park is located there, along with several natural hot springs.

Valley View Hot Springs is one of the hot springs there and is located near the northern end of the valley and sits up on the west side of he Sangre de Cristos. It is part of a non-profit land trust that also includes the Everson Ranch on the valley floor below the hot springs and a defunct iron mine that closed in many years ago. In the summer time, half a million Mexican free-tailed bats migrate up from Mexico and inhabit the mine. They come out every evening at dusk and eat millions of mosquitos and other harmful insects, keeping those populations under control.

Recent Wildfire Hazard Clean-up

On April 21, as part of OLT's efforts to mitigate wildfire risk, Doug Bishop led a group of eight OLT members and staff in the removal of dead wood and other fire hazards from the tent camping sites between the Welcome Center and Meadow Pond. In less than two hours, the group had the campsites cleaned up and looking good. Thanks to all who helped!