A write-up in the Montrose Mirror about the COFFA’s Rivershed weekend (April 5-6, 2024). Read more about it here.

Pete was recently interviewed on the Metro show on KGUN community radio by Ean Thomas Tafoya aka Mr. Denver about the reauthorization of the Farm Bill happening next year. He discusses how this bill influences food access, climate action, and environmental justice. Listen Here.

Pete Kolbenschlag was interviewed on KVNF about the annual North Fork Agriculture lobbying trip to Washington DC. Listen Here

Guest Column by our director Pete Kolbenschlag on public lands conservation as a potent tool for strengthening rural climate resilience.

In a world of often competing needs, sometimes it’s harder to find a common path forward than to simply plow one’s own. This sometimes seems the case for calls to streamline clean energy development or to limit community input into new infrastructure. But shortcuts can make for long delays — and many an ambitious project runs into obstacles by not adequately involving impacted members of the public, who nonetheless will be heard.

The Colorado Farm and Food Alliance is supportive of public lands conservation, for protecting the stunning landscapes near our home-base. Set into this amazing landscape are small towns like Crawford, Paonia and Hotchkiss, and scattered between and on the mesas all around are the farms, ranches, wineries and businesses that work hard to make it here. As we consider how we can adapt rural communities to be resilient and prosperous in a changing climate and dynamic future… we see opportunity as we look even further west across the Uncompahgre Plateau into the heart of Colorado’s red rock canyon country along the Dolores River.

A guest column for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel by Pete Kolbenschlag. Read it here.

A guest column for Colorado Politics written by Pete Kolbenschlag. Read it here.

A guest column for the Montrose Daily Press by Pete Kolbenschlag. Read it here.

Listen to Pete Kolbenschlag explain why climate action by local leaders is important in this KVNF listener commentary.

On this KVNF regional newscast, Cassie Knust spoke with Elizabeth Agee, the Just Good Food Manager for the Colorado Food and Farm Alliance, about an upcoming river restoration workshop.

This workshop teaches techniques for improving river and wetland habitats. Hosted on a local private ranch that uses regenerative methods for improving pasture and wetland habitats.

Pete Kolbenschlag wrote this guest column for the Post Independent.

“The climate emergency is here. While its costs remain unknown, failure to act with the urgency needed only means that what comes due will be even more expensive and more deadly”.

Read the full article here.

Listen to our Just Good Food Manager, Elizabeth Agee talk about Connecting with the Environment through Permaculture in this KVNF interview.

An act designed to direct federal support to farms under 50 acres. Read more about it here.

In this article published by Colorado Newsline Pete Kolbenschlag from Colorado Farm & Food Alliance talks about how our organization wants to create a model for bringing resources to the regions facing the most severe risk from climate change. Read it here.

With the current Farm Bill set to expire, Colorado's farming community is anxious about its renewal, fearing cuts or insufficient funding amidst rising costs and the need for adaptation to climate change. The bill, which must be reauthorized every five years, supports farmers with programs ranging from crop insurance to assistance in land purchasing, and its renewal is seen as vital for the sustainability of the agricultural sector and rural communities. Read the article here.

In this article “Growing eggplants & electricity to benefit both?” Mark Waltermire, owner of Thistle Whistle Farm in Colorado's North Fork Valley, is featured. He cultivates a diverse range of crops and plans to integrate agrivoltaics to produce half a megawatt of electricity by May 2024, with support from a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy awarded to COFFA.