Gabe Eggers Executive Director LaBocaCenter for Sustainability Gabe Eggers moved to Durango in 1999 to finish College at Fort Lewis and in 2003, graduated with a self-constructed major in Cultural Ecology.  After college, he began working in the deli at Durango Natural Foods and as a manager of Turtle Lake Refuge, a non-profit dedicated to health, nutrition, sustainability and education.  He recently completed an apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture at the University of Santa Cruz.  Gabe, along with his good friend and farming partner, Mike, assisted in the development of an educational market garden and small farm apprenticeship program at La Boca Center for Sustainability in 2008. Since then, Gabe has become the interim director for La Boca. Believing strongly in the value of community service, he currently holds a position as President of the Board of Directors to Durango Natural Foods.