Heard In these places
•Southern Rocky Mountain Ag Conference, Monte Vista, Colorado
•Black Gold Annual CONNECT Meeting, Grand Forks, North Dakota
•Manitoba Forage & Grassland Association Regen Ag Conference, Brandon, Mb. Canada
•Montana Soil Health Symposium, Billings, Montana
•McCain’s Grower Meeting, Burley, Idaho
•McCain’s Regenerative Ag Group Virtual Presentation
•The Teton Soil Conservation District Biotic Farming Workshop, Driggs, Idaho
Tilth Conference, Kennewick, Washington
•Salcha-Delta Soil 7 Water Conservation District, Delta Junction, Alaksa
•Northern Colorado Progressive Ag Symposium, Greeley, Colorado
•Montana Seed Potato Seminar, Bozeman, Montana
•Healthy Soils, Healthy Farms
Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District Winter Ag School Presque Isle, Maine
•New Brunswick Soil and Crop Improvement Association Workshop Woodstock, NB, Canada
•24th Annual No Till on the Plains Winter Conference Wichita, Kansas
•Soil Health U and Trade Show Salina, Kansas
•Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts Annual Meeting Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
•Rockey Farms Field Day Center, Colorado
•Acres USA Soil Health Summit Davis, California
•Colorado Pollinator Summit Boulder, Colorado
•Western Canada Conference on Soil Health and Grazing Edmonton, AB, Canada
•Montana Soil Health Workshops Three Forks, Great Falls, Billings and Sidney, Montana
•Soil Health U and Trade Show Salina, Kansas
•Union County Conservation District Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
•Utah Soil Health Conferences Tremonton, Herber City and Richfield, Utah
•Acres USA Eco-Ag Conference and Trade Show Louisville, Kentucky
•Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum, Montrose, Colorado
•National Association of Conservation Districts Annual Meeting, Soil Health Champion, Denver, Colorado
•Normandy, France Grower Meeting
•BASE Annual Meeting, Blois, France
•APAD Grower Meeting, Arras, France
•Greenotec Grower Meeting, Ghlin, Belgium
•National Farmers Union All State Camp, Bailey, Colorado
•Rockey Farms Field Day, Center, Colorado
•Conservation Innovation Grant Field Day, Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District, Houlton, Maine
•The Soil Revolution: Digging Deeper, Longmont, Colorado
•Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum, Montrose, Colorado
•Lower Mainland Horticultural Improvement Association and Horticulture Growers' Short Course, Abbotsford, Canada
•UW Extension and WPVGA Grower Education Conference, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
•Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Health Workshop, Idaho Falls, Idaho
•Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Health Workshop, Burley, Idaho
•Soil Health Symposium and Workshop, Ontario, Oregon
•'Survival & Growth in Unstable Markets, Are healthy soils the key?' Lava Beds-Butte Valley Resource Conservation District Soil Health Workshop, Tulelake, California
•Growing Resilience: Water Management Workshop Series, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
•Southwest Agricultural Seminar, Dolores Colorado
•'Soil Health and What it means to you' Rosebud and Treasure County Conservation Districts Workshop and Ag Expo, Forsyth, Montana
•Annual Washington Organic Recycling Council Conference, 'Feed the Soil, Feed the World: Organic Amendments, Soil Health and the Bottom Line' Wenatchee, Washington State
•Plank Stewardship Initiative, Wyoming NRCS and Conservation Districts Soil Health Workshops: Wheatland, Wyoming, Riverton, Wyoming, Greybull, Wyoming
•Washington State University Soil Health Workshop, Moses Lake, Washington State
•Western Slope Soil Health Conference, Delta, Colorado
•Western SARE Conference, Portland, Oregon
•Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District Workshop, Houlton, Maine
•Morgan Composting Field Day, Sears, Michigan
•Southern Rocky Mountain Ag Conference, Monte Vista, Colorado
•Soil and Water Conservation Society, Loveland, Colorado
•Colorado Association of Conservation Districts Annual Meeting
•Colorado Conservation Tillage Association, Burlington, Colorado
•Soil Health Workshops, Bismark and Fargo, North Dakota
•Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Health Workshops, Butte, Billings and Miles City, Montana
•Soil Heath Workshop, Adams State University, Alamosa, Colorado
•32nd Annual Western Washington Potato Workshop, Burlington, Washington State
Awards & Boards
Rockey Farms was awarded the 2014 National Potato Council Environmental Stewardship Award and the 2011 Colorado Association of Conservation Districts Farming Division Conservationist of the Year Award for its farming practices.
In 2016, the National Association of Conservation Districts named Brendon a Soil Health Champion.
The NACD and the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign honored Rockey Farms with the 2017 Farmer-Rancher Pollinator Conservation Award in Washington D.C.
Brendon is the recipient of numerous individual honors for his innovative ideas and dedication to education.
He sits on the Colorado Certified Potato Growers Association board where he represents the San Luis Valley seed potato grower’s contribution to the industry’s certification and research on the Colorado Seed Potato Act Advisory Committee.
He also sits on the Colorado State University Office of Engagement and Extension Advisory Board and serves FFA chapters in the San Luis Valley as a project leader and advisory member.
He is a former member of the Center Conservation District Board, the Rio Grande Water Conservation Education Initiative Board, the Colorado State Conservation Board and the Farm Service Agency Board as well as many subcommittees.