"the Speak Out cassette and CD-ROM provide you with the communications skills and know-how to speak out for farming"

Speak Out

A widening gap of understanding is opening up between the farming industry and the general public. Unless farmers and others with a rural bias grasp every opportunity to explain how quality British food is produced and discuss consumer concerns the gap is going to get wider. The opportunities are there. Public interest in agriculture is huge. So to help farmers to rise to this challenge, and restore confidence and trust in British produce, LEAF have produced a number of ‘self help’ tools to help you to communicate better.

Speak out - the Talking Tool Kit

The Speak Out 'self help' CD ROM and audio cassette help you to prepare for speaking to different audiences. They provide advice on handling tricky questions and give you the chance to eavesdrop on farmers getting it right - and wrong! There are exercises to improve your choice of words and phrases and plenty of ideas of how to make speaking - whether on or off farm - enjoyable and useful to you and, importantly, your listeners.

Find out more About Speak Out.

Hosting Walks and Talks:
A farmer's guide to getting it right

Advice and case studies covering a range of topics including school visits, health and safety, activities on the farm and getting the best from a group.

Click here for the Walks and Talks booklet.

Farm Walks and Talks:
Twelve activities to make them memorable

This is a fantastic handbook packed with ideas of different farm visit activities like countryside pizzas, collecting strips, map sticks, nest building and many more. Some require very little preparation and few resources others are more complicated and need more time. All the activities are designed to engage visitors and enhance your messages.

Click here for the Activities booklet.

All on Board - the Farm Signboard Tool Kit

A combination of illustration and explanation, this collection of thirty Farm Sign Boards helps you, and your fields, to tell the farming facts. Robust and weatherproof, you can site them wherever they will be noticed and read. By field-side footpaths, on gates, posts or fences, or even grouped on a barn wall, the signboards explain the agriculture that consumers can trust, farmers are proud of and is good for wildlife and the landscape.

Find out more and order your notice boards online.