Topics

Terra Brockman speaks at conferences and other venues on a range of food and farm topics. In addition to her latest book, The Seasons of Henry's Farm, topics have included:

Texture of Farm Life

• "The Art of Noticing:"  The Writing Life and The Farming Life

• Farming through Fifty-Two Seasons

• Beauty, Pain, and the Love of Farming

 

 

Farmers and Farming

• New Hope for the Future of Farming

• Farming in Harmony with Nature

• Who are the New Farmers? (USDA stats and your neighbors too)

• Small Farms; Big Markets

• Getting the Word Out: Marketing Strategies for New Farmers

• Farming for Profit and Quality of Life
 

Farmland

• Betting the Farm: Future Food Growing in America?

• Valuing Land: Parking lot, Subdivision, Strip-malls . . . Farmland?

• Ways to Preserve Farmland for Local Food Production

• Intro to Agricultural Easements
 

Food

• Doing Good by Eating Well

• The High Cost of Cheap Food

• Changing the World One Meal at a Time: What One Person Can Do

• Growing Local: How to find great food grown nearby
 

Food Systems

• Reinventing the Food Chain: Re-connecting Consumers and Farmers

• A Tale of Two Food Systems (adults) or A Tale of Two Chickens (kids)

• The Re-Localization of Food: Values Added Agriculture
 

Agricultural Policy and Misc.

• Energy, Climate, and Food Production

• Sustaining the Family Farm through “Able-to-Sustain” Agriculture

• Sustainable Agriculture and Social Justice

• “Feeding the World,” “Safe and Abundant” and other Farm Bureau Fictions