Colorado Coalition to Enhance Working Lands Annual Summit -
Day One, we will hear from organizations offering opportunities to support local food systems and land stewards in the San Luis Valley. Participants will be able to ask questions about these programs, learn how they can plug in, and brainstorm with each other about where future projects need to focus to meet ongoing needs. Day Two will be spent visiting a farm in the San Luis Valley. We will continue sharing, building, and strengthening our networks, practices, and communication through our Summit activities.

Session 2: This three-part webinar series will focus on a few strategic business training concepts to help bolster you and steer you towards skills you need for long-term operational success and viability.
Presented by Olivia Tincani, together with her suite of colleague thought practitioners, this series can be taken as a whole or each course individually. Courses are aimed at existing or emerging entrepreneurs.

Actionable feedback catalyzes learning and motivation by correcting errors while looking ahead to further development. We’ll share a variety of tried and true methods for productive feedback conversations both scheduled and impromptu, as well as how to get feedback to help you grow as a mentor.

Session 3: This three-part series of workshops and webinars will focus on a few strategic business training concepts that we know will help bolster you and steer you towards skills you need for long-term operational success and viability.

Join us on Friday, May 17 in Cleveland, NM and learn about composting principles, uses of compost in agricultural systems, and how to build an aerated static compost pile from experts at Reunity Resources.

Are you a past, present, or aspiring ranching mentor interested in teaching the next generation? Consider joining us on June 18 in Harlowton, MT for a collective learning experience including a morning with speakers and a ranch visit in the afternoon.

Join us for a summer field day in beautiful Fountain, CO on June 28th, 2024! Co-hosted by Quivira Coalition, National Young Farmers Coalition, and Colorado State University Extension, this event will get your boots dirty touring three neighboring ranches demonstrating the successes and challenges of regenerative grazing. We'll also share practical tools that ranchers and their employees can use to create resilient professional relationships. While this field day is designed for those active in or pursuing a career in agriculture, we also welcome anyone interested in joining us. Beginning farmers and ranchers are highly encouraged to attend!

Join us for an all-day workshop in Costilla and the beautiful Valle Vidal of Carson National Forest. This workshop is designed for ranchers/graziers, or those interested in grazing, and public agency staff, but all are welcome!

This webinar, hosted by the New Agrarian Program, will explore common stressors faced by producers and offer ways to identify the protective factors that help us handle these challenges.

Call #1: Sept. 24th noon, Sept. 26th 7 am - You and Your Operation as Mentor
Mentoring differs from being an employer in key ways: how do you know if it’s right for you? What are you excited to teach? The answers to these and other questions will help you write an apprenticeship description that is both appealing and realistic about the ups and downs of regenerative agriculture on your site. We’ll discuss ways to describe work schedules, location, isolation, and other factors, to be sure your description will appeal to the applicants you most want to attract.

Join us for a day of learning about how organic amendments (compost, biochar, bale grazing) can impact rangelands in Texas.

Come learn what to say and how to help someone who seems to be struggling. COMET™️ (Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory) is a community-based approach to activate rural community members to support one another in times of stress.

This is part one of a five-part series on various agencies and tools within the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program. This webinar on October 22 from 12 - 1 p.m. MT will cover getting started with the USDA with Faith Hill who is the USDA Beginning Farmer Rancher Coordinator in Montana.

NAP 101 is an interactive opportunity to learn more about the New Agrarian Program, hear descriptions of our 2025 mentor sites, and get a few tips on applying to the program. Although this call will be recorded and posted to our website, attending the live call gives applicants the opportunity to ask questions and meet the NAP staff who will help review applications.

Join us for a fascinating webinar featuring New Mexico rancher, Jorge Ramirez, who will share his extensive experience in implementing rotational grazing and virtual fencing as a tool to promote ecological restoration.

This is part two of a five-part series on various agencies and tools within the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program. In this second webinar of the series we will focus on the Farm Service Agency to learn about the direct and guaranteed farm ownership and operation loans they offer, and what can be purchased using the loans. We will be joined by Lauren Zimmermann, who serves as a program analyst for the Farm Service Agency and a USDA Beginning Farmer Rancher Coordinator in Montana.

Save the date for REGENERATE 2024! We hope to see you in Denver at the National Western Center from November 6-8. This year’s conference, Innovating for a Resilient Future, will interrogate and explore data, technology, information collection and sharing, ways of learning and knowing, and the myriad approaches to fulfilling our ecological roles.