Boulder County restaurants join Restore Colorado to fund regenerative farming projects

BOULDER — A group of Boulder County restaurants are among the first to join the newly launched Restore Colorado program aimed at raising funding to help farmers implement regenerative farming practices. 

The program is a public-private partnership among James Beard Humanitarian of the Year winner Zero Foodprint, regenerative agriculture nonprofit group Mad Agriculture, Boulder County, the city of Boulder, and Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency.  

“Under the Restore Colorado banner, Zero Foodprint member restaurants collect a few cents per meal to provide grants for carbon farming projects overseen by Mad Agriculture,” according to a Boulder County news release. “This…