2025 REGENERATE Conference a Great Success

The 2025 REGENERATE Conference, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center  from November 5-7, was a huge success with over 800 people signing up for workshops, the virtual conference, and the in-person conference which was hosted by HMI, the Quivira Coalition, and the American Grassfed Association. Participants came from all over the country as well as Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Mexico.

This three-day event focusing the on the theme of "Cultivating Adaptability included a full-day of pre-conference workshops and presentations on such topics as: Holistic Policy Design and Analysis, Soil Health, A Holistic Approach to Ag Finance, Hands-on Rawhide Braiding, Ag Business Strategic Visioning, Regenerative Financing, Agrivoltaics as Agribusiness, Cultivating Financial Clarity, Understanding Climate Emotions, Herding Dog Demonstration, Grazing Intensity and Duration, Redefining Dairy for A changing World, Promoting Resilience Through Regenerative Organic Practices, Ag Conservation Planning Tools, Bonding and Training Livestock Guardian Dogs, Integrated Land Planning, First Steps in the Regenerative Journey to Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Healing, Custom Grazing, Riparian Restoration for Ranches, Policy for a Sustainable Ranching and Farming Future, Rangeland Carbon Programs, Grazing Land Stewardship, and What Role Can Data Play in Regenerative Ranching.

The two-day conference included a host of plenaries and panel presentations that included: Learning to Do More with Less with Dr. Chase Currie of the San Pedro Ranch; Putting It All Together: Integrating Regenerative Principles on a Large Scale Commercial Ranch with Ariel Greenwood; Relying on Traditional Knowledge Systems in Turbulent Times with James Calabaza; One Family, One Farm, Six Generations with Jodi Benoit; Health the Farmer, Heal the Farm with Gail Fuller; Linking Soil, Plant, Animal and Human Health in Livestock Systtems with Dr. Stephan Van Vliet; Building Resilience and Profitability in Regnerative Meat and Food Suppply Chins with Michele Thorne; Tools and Stories for Agricultural Adaptation in a Channing Climate with Dr. Cynthia Daley: Regeneratie Agriclture and Somatic Healting with Shahid Mustaf and Melissa Lopez Sullivan; Rooting in Place to Cultivate True Resiliience with Britty Duffy; REZilient Land Stewarship with Zach Ben, Automation in Pastured Pioultry Systems with Sam Noble; and Chalnenging Monopoly Conrol of Our Food System with Angela Huffman.

Additionally, there were multiple round tables that encouraged audience participation and networking on such topics as: A Balanced Approach to Regenerative Ag; How Have You Improved Financial Management & Profit; How to Communicate the Value of Regenerative Food to Consumers; Community Building Toward Climate Resilience; Continuing Climate-Smart Agriculture in Funding Uncertainty; Improving Wildlife Habitat with Conservation Grazing; Exploring Civil Discourse; Improving Wellness and Behavioral Health Outcomes for Farmers & Ranchers; How to Protect and Support Real Regenerative Ag with Policy; The Agrarian Commons Model in Southern New Mexico; Creating a Sense of Belonging during Transient Times in Early Agrarian Careers; Creating Robust Regenerative Food Supply Chains; Advancing Ag in a Changing Policy Landscape; Lessons Learned About Developing and Growing Agritourism and Value-Added Products

Thanks to our conference sponsors:No Regrets Initiative, Waverly Street Foundation, 11th Hour Project, Thornburg Foundation, Lydia B Stokes Foundation, Grasslans Charitable Trust, New Mexico Climate Investment Center, Platform for Agriculture + Climate Transformation, Western Landowners Alliance, Natural Grocers, Horizon Organic, San Pedro Ranch, Vitality Venture Fund, Mighty Arrow Family Foundation, Tecovas Family Foundation, Audubon Conservation Ranching, Grassburger, Mesa Business Services, Nancy Ranney & David Levi, American Farmland Trust, Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Noble Research Institute, Grassroots Carbon, Inland Ocean Coalition, MAD! Capital, Painterland Sisters Organic Skyr Yogurt, Point Blue Conservation Sceience, Redwing Ranch, Rodale Institute, Silicon Ranch, Women in Ranching, World Wildlife Foundation, American Ag Credit, Cafe Mam, California State University Chico's Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Food Systems, Dirt Capital Partners, Triad National Security LLC, Pasturebird, Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute, Sarah Wentzel-Fisher, Think Regeneration, High Country News, Greenacres Foundation, National Center for Appropriate Technology, Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation, Ferrell Ranch, Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed, Central Tri-County Soil & Water Conservation District, James Ranch, New Mexico Department of Agriculture, Outside Minds, Aspen Business Center Foundation, Merrill Lynch, and Rocky Mountain Farmers Union.

Thank you also to our business partners and food and drink donors including: Duo Language Servies, Fortune Cookie Consepts, Full Image Media, PrintMasters, Painterland Sisters, Cafe Mam, Pasture Bird, Thousand HIlls Lifetime Grazed, Los Poblanos Botanical Spirits, Second Street Berwing, Natural Grocers, and Eco Products.