Creating Community Resilience

BY ANN ADAMS

As we enter into 2021, we continue to face numerous uncertainties and find our world vastly changed from the beginning of 2020. It is a time that requires us to question assumptions and to adapt. In November, we partnered with the Quivira Coalition and the American Grassfed Association on the 2020 REGENERATE Conference, and we had over 350 participants registered for the event. It was a new opportunity to learn how to create and curate an interactive virtual conference as we figure out how to be socially connected while physically distant. This skill is needed to build our global community whether we are dealing with a pandemic or considering our natural resource footprint on the planet.

The theme was “Creating Resilience in Times of Uncertainty.” The panels provided a diversity of opinion on the challenges we face and the work we must engage in to address those challenges. Through it all, all the conversation focused on what it meant to