There are some industries where blogging has really taken off. But aside from a couple of pioneers such as - Wiggly Wigglers and the Bovine TB Blog - farming is a sector which has been slower to get into the whole blog 'thing'.
But I am starting to sense a bit of change. The list of farmer bloggers on FWiSpace is steadily growing and we've had a couple of new additions in recent weeks who are well worth a read (Herself's Blog and Zoeshiloh's Blog). We're just waiting for Herself to dish the dirt on He his-self....
I've also been contacted by someone called The City Farmer who is aiming to bring a City view of farming through his blog. He explains that he spends his weekdays on the 28th floor working for a leading Investment Bank in the City of London, but his heart is much closer to the ground, at his 300 acre family farm in Suffolk. I'll be keeping my eye on that one.
And I'll be doing a bit more blogging myself next week. I'm hoping to be posting live from the NFU Conference on the official FW Food For Thought blog.
PS If you find it hard to navigate around all the blogs (which I must admit is a bit tricky now) here's a list:
I hope that everyone likes the idea - but I have set up the blog system so that posts by columnist Matthew Naylor also feed into the FWiSpace area. I thought his posts were very much in the spirit of things and I hope you enjoy them.
At the moment we have a row of five or six on the list but this is just because the feed I have set up has proved over-enthusiastic on its first outing. In future, it will just pop up a post if he has written anything new - so it shouldn't crowd out everybody else's contributions.
I hope everyone thinks this is a good idea. Let me know if you don't.