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Getting Serious Now outreach campaign, newsletters, and blog essays encouraging individuals, groups, and governments to be highly attentive, thoughtful, and proactive about our world and our future – now!

Healthy Foodsheds initiative urging and supporting people in paying attention to the health of our local foodsheds and surrounding ecosystems in light of a changing climate and wisely adapting our ways for a better future. Our San Juan Mountain Watch and Exploring Foodshed Health field guides are key resources.

Looking Forward roadmap to more healthy local food from healthy local foodsheds while addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. Our Adapting Your Local Foodshed to a Changing Climate guide outlines how.

Farm to School and Farm to Preschool in La Plata County and Southwest Colorado and beyond – delicious food, always sustainable and as local as possible for our children. We continue to promote and support this  work with extensive resources on this website that we developed from our last 20+ years of programming as this work has become institutionalized into local, state, and federal groups and agencies.

Wild School Gardens promotion and support for children paying attention to nature in school gardens – including an extensive resource guide.

Being Proactive—as a Community—About Climate Change in our Local Food Systems and Foodsheds

May 6, 2026

Fickle Monsoons, Summer in March, and Hot Summer Nights: Climate change is here, has been seriously affecting local agriculture, and will certainly get worse. It will take some serious effort to adjust our local food production and local food systems to the extent needed, so why not ramp up efforts now to adapt and help […]

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Addressing Climate Change with Local Food

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