Thank You to Our 2026 Conservation Summit Title & Presenting Sponsors: Brook Ledge Horse Transportation & AdventHealth Ocala
Every year, the Horse Farms Forever Conservation Summit brings our community together around one important question: How do we protect the places that make Marion County worth calling home?
This year, that conversation reaches beyond the fence lines of our horse farms.
The 2026 Conservation Summit, The Great Florida Cattle Drive: Lessons for Protecting Farms, Ranches, and the Florida Wildlife Corridor, will explore the connection between Florida’s working lands, its wildlife, its agricultural heritage, and the future of conservation across our state.
Conversations like these are possible because of organizations willing to invest in them year after year.
For 2026, we are proud to once again welcome Brook Ledge Horse Transportation as our Title Sponsor for the seventh consecutive year, and AdventHealth Ocala as our Presenting Sponsor for the third consecutive year.
Brook Ledge Horse Transportation: Seven Years of Support
For seven years, Brook Ledge Horse Transportation has stood behind the Horse Farms Forever Conservation Summit.
That kind of continued support means a great deal to our organization.
Brook Ledge has long been part of the equestrian community, and its ongoing commitment to the Summit reflects a shared belief in protecting the land, farms, and rural character that make Marion County such an important place for horses and the people who care for them.
Their support helps make it possible for Horse Farms Forever to bring together landowners, agricultural leaders, conservationists, business owners, elected officials, and community members for meaningful conversations about the future of our region.
We are incredibly grateful to Brook Ledge for once again leading the way as our Title Sponsor.
AdventHealth Ocala: Three Years of Partnership
We are equally grateful to welcome AdventHealth Ocala back as our Presenting Sponsor for the third year.
A strong community depends on more than what we build. It also depends on what we choose to preserve.
AdventHealth Ocala’s continued partnership reflects an understanding that healthy communities are connected to the places where people live, work, gather, and grow. Here in Marion County, that includes the open spaces, farms, ranches, and natural resources that shape our quality of life.
Their support helps strengthen the Conservation Summit and the larger conversation surrounding thoughtful growth, land conservation, and the future of our community.
Working Lands Are Worth Protecting
This year’s Great Florida Cattle Drive theme is a powerful reminder that Florida’s farms and ranches are much more than beautiful landscapes.
They are working lands.
They support livelihoods. They provide habitat. They preserve connections between natural areas. They carry forward generations of agricultural tradition. And here in Marion County, they are inseparable from the identity of the Horse Capital of the World®.
Protecting them takes foresight.
It takes collaboration.
And it takes partners willing to stand behind that work year after year.
To Brook Ledge Horse Transportation and AdventHealth Ocala, thank you for your continued commitment to Horse Farms Forever and for helping make the 2026 Conservation Summit possible.
And to all of our sponsors, members, partners, and supporters, thank you for continuing to believe that our open spaces and beautiful places are worth protecting.
We look forward to gathering with you on November 12, 2026, at Circle Square Commons for another important Conversation About Conservation.
