Five Steps to Your Regenerative Resilience Plan: A Workshop for Farmers

Five-Event Workshop Series with Laura Lengnick

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 For many farmers, changing weather patterns make existing farm management challenges more difficult and create new ones.  This workshop series will help participants to craft a practical whole farm plan for reducing their farms' risks and capturing new opportunities associated with changing weather patterns - by building resilience in their farming systems and farm businesses. 

This workshop will guide participants through the five steps of making a climate resilience plan for their farm by answering questions such as:

• How is climate change showing up on the farm?

• What are some “best fit” adaptation options for building resilience into the operation?

• What are the best options for this unique farm?

• What resources are available to help design and implement these options?

Beginning with a Pre-Conference Workshop and Saturday conference session at OAK's 2024 annual farming conference, this five-event series uses a mix of virtual and in-person gatherings, short lessons, large and small group discussions, and independent work and reflection to help participants craft a climate resilience plan that is practical, effective, and tailored to their unique farm and family goals. 

**Participants must attend all five workshops and spend about 20 hours outside workshop meetings to complete their farm's regenerative climate resilience plan. Participation is limited. Farms are encouraged (but not required) to register two participants.**

About the content

This series takes participants through each step of the regenerative whole farm resilience planning process described at the Five Steps to Regenerative Farm Resilience website.  Adaptation resources and farmer case studies specific to small and mid-scale diversified operations in Kentucky will be provided throughout the workshop events.  Click here to learn more about the value of this planning process to farmers Wisconsin and Minnesota who completed the workshop series in 2022.

About the timeline

This workshop meets a total of five times in January and February 2024 in a mix of in-person and virtual settings as described below:

Session 1: OAK Pre Conference Workshop - January 25, 2024, 9 am -12:30 pm ET - $55 registration includes lunch

Session 2: OAK Conference Session - January 27, 2024, 1:15 - 2:45 pm ET - scholarships are available

Session 3: Virtual Session - February 1, 12 - 2 pm ET - no fee

Session 4: Virtual Session - February 15, 12 - 2 pm ET - no fee 

About the presenter 

Laura Lengnick, Director of Agriculture at the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, leads this workshop. Laura is an award-winning soil scientist who has worked for more than 30 years to put sustainability values into action as a researcher, policy-maker, educator, activist and farmer. Since 2015, she has worked with small- and mid-sized businesses to manage climate risks and cultivate the climate resilience of their operations. She regularly leads regenerative climate resilience planning workshops for farmers and agricultural technical service providers throughout the country. The second edition of her award-winning book, Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate, examines climate change, resilience and the future of food through the adaptation stories of more than 45 leading sustainable, organic, regenerative and climate-smart farmers and ranchers growing food throughout the U.S. Click here to learn more about Laura and her work.

Contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

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