COlorado CEWL (pronounced colorado cool)

​The purpose of the Colorado Coalition to Enhance Working Lands (CO CEWL) is to improve the resilience and productivity of Colorado to create viable agricultural businesses and rural communities, protect open space, and increase the ecosystem service benefits these lands provide to the people of Colorado. Our focus is working with agricultural producers and land managers to increase soil health, biodiversity, and hydrologic function wherever possible.

our strategies and goals

CONNECT

To provide a platform for Coalition participants and their networks to connect and share information for easy access to events, knowledge, competency, and resources to increase their success on the ground, in their communities, and for the state of Colorado.

ENHANCE

To support and enhance the ongoing efforts of agricultural producers, land managers, organizations, and agencies to improve working lands in Colorado. Their efforts to revitalize the soil, land productivity and water quality are vital for all Coloradoans. 

EDUCATE

​To increase all Coloradoans' awareness of the value of enhancing working lands and help them understand how they can support agricultural producers and land managers who improve working land health and function through their management practices.

Our goals are to acknowledge and support the good work being done by land managers and agricultural producers as well as the organizations supporting them, develop funding opportunities, and provide professional development and networking opportunities. Through these activities we identify the collective problems of land managers and agricultural producers and work within the coalition to solve them or engage in activities that address those needs.

Thanks to Martha Records and Rich Rainaldi for their support of this coalition.

Our soil has degraded and water has become more scarce.
​We're changing that.​

who is using this website?
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ag producers &
land managers

CO CEWL recognizes the vital work that Colorado agricultural producers and land managers play in increasing the health, vitality, and function of Colorado working lands. This website highlights the good work of innovative producers and managers. Please see our Resources page and Stories page to find Colorado mentors and resources where you can learn more about how to increase the health of your lands and expand your network.
If you would like to share your story
​or be a resource, contact anna@holisticmanagement.org.

consumers ​&
​citizens

CO CEWL knows that Colorado consumers and citizens are a key influence on agricultural practices through their buying power at stores and through their influence of policy makers. We hope that you recognize the difference you can make in the health of working lands in Colorado and educate yourself about these issues by viewing our Resources page and Stories page so you can share this information with your circle of influence. Also view our About Us page to see all the organizations working together to improve Colorado working lands.​

policy makers &
​legislators

CO CEWL has many members that work at the local, state, and federal policy levels. The coalition understands the power that policy makers at this level have to influence the practices on public and private working lands in Colorado. We hope that you will view our Resources page and Stories page to better understand the issues that face agriculture producers and land managers as they work to enhance Colorado working lands. We hope you will contact our coalition members (see About Us page) for more information on the issues on which you are working.

​"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of
the biotic community. It is wrong when it ​tends otherwise."
​-Aldo Leopold

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