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The Colorado Farm & Food Alliance believes that fostering strong, locally-rooted leadership and engaged communities is how we secure prosperous rural places that are resource resilient and positioned for the future.
We invite you to take action at the links below.
Thriving Farms Food Security
Current Action
We need a good Farm Bill
Right now the Farm Bill is years overdue and its prospects are uncertain. While we agree that a Farm Bill is needed, we want to ensure that whatever Congress does to move some or all of a Farm Bill forward, that it does not undermine the need to address these critical priorities. And in a way that supports small- and medium sized operations, food access and rural development, and greater climate and systems resilience.
Endorse Farm Bill Priorities that protect rural innovation, climate resilience, nutrition access, and family farms - Add your name to our statement in support of key priorities in any Farm Bill or related legislation.
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Nature-Based Solutions: Climate & Conservation
Current Actions
Reinstate funding for rural renewable projects
Dear Congress: You broke it - You fix it. Congress, along party lines, recently voted to eliminate or drastically reduce funding that supports rural and community-based renewable energy projects on farms, for member-owned electric coops, and for grid upgrades.
But rural innovation and home-grown power are not partisan issues but sources of Colorado pride. So please join us in asking Rep. Hurd and Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet to keep working together, and to reinstate funding for community-solar and rural renewable projects.
Thank you for supporting the GORP Act
Dear Rep Hurd, Sens Bennet and Hickenlooper: Thank you for sponsoring the GORP Act. Recently Rep. Jeff Hurd joined with Sen. Michael Bennet and Sen. John Hickenlooper to introduce the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection (GORP) Act in the 119th Congress.
This bipartisn, locally-supported and developed proposal would safeguard important headwaters and public lands in the Gunnison River Basin.
We recently sent a letter to these Members thanking them for their leadership. You can add your name to this letter too, and we will send an update later this year about all the additional support that has been growing for protecting these lands.
Community Engagement Rural Resilience
Current Action
Are you a Delta or Montrose County farmer?
Sign up to take our quick survey to help us learn about agriculture in the region and how to better serve operators like you.
Through our Mountain Roots/Healthy Futures AmeriCorps project we are gathering input from producers in the region about their operations, regenerative practices, and successes and challenges that they experience.
We have both a quick online survey and a one-on-one interview about your farm and operation. This project is already teaching us important things, and your input is valuable to us. CLICK BELOW TO FIND OUT MORE AND GET STARTED