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Traditional cultural landscapes are the basis for providing a variety of ecosystem services. Their preservation is linked to adapted land use practices and the associated social and ecological conditions. Using common pastures of the Black Forest biosphere area as an example, this paper examines possible solutions for the continuation of agricultural practices that are associated with positive effects for the traditional cultural landscape. We use socio-ecological resilience as a analytical framework. Resilience is understood as the ability of agriculture and the landscape to cope with disturbances and changes without losing central characteristics and functions. Based on the results of 44 farm consultations and 23 semi-structured interviews, we show how forward-looking guidelines and measures proposed by farmers operationalise resilience. Central to this are improved networking between stakeholders, increased learning, and expanded participation in cultural landscape preservation. From a resilience and regional governance perspective, we recommend that polycentric approaches (i.e., linking horizontal and vertical axes of decision making and governance) be given greater consideration in agricultural management and landscape stewardship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]