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Advocates urge policy fixes to allow on‑land water‑holding and regenerative practices in Colorado
Summary
Speakers from the Coalition for a Regenerative Future and Drylands Agroecology Research described demonstration projects that use contour terracing, swales and perennial systems to retain rainfall, plant trees without irrigation and restore degraded dryland farms, and they urged legal and funding reforms to permit broader landscape water‑holding and targeted assistance for small producers.
Spur, Colo. — Regenerative agriculture practitioners told the Water Resources and Agriculture Review Committee that place‑based techniques to slow and store water on the landscape can revive soils and expand productive perennial systems in Colorado’s arid environment, but that state water‑management rules and administrative hurdles constrain wider adoption.
Jolie Bronner of the Coalition for a Regenerative Future described partnerships with the Colorado Department of Agriculture (STAR pilot) and explained efforts to lower funding barriers for historically marginalized and small…
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