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
