Laura Lengnick is an award-winning soil scientist and author of Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate.She offers nature-based climate risk management and resilience consulting to businesses and community-based organizations through Cultivating Resilience, LLC, a private firm based in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.She also serves as Project Manager for Foragable Community, an North Carolina-based non-profit that supports business-led, community-based education projects designed to increase the active participation of the public in local foodways in order to enhance the sustainability and resilience of their region.