Farm blogging is not necessarily difficult and time-consuming. Try regularly posting a photo and frame with a few words of background -- a vibrant photo with an engaging description will go a long way in creating a connection with your customers.

It shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to post a blog entry like this. Perfect for those summer weeks when the last thing you want to do is write a long blog post.

Eugene from Catskill Merino [1], a sheep farm and Small Farm Central subscriber in Goshen, New York, does this consistently and effectively. See here [2] or here [3].

Of course, every good rule is flexible and it is a good idea to break this rule if you do not have anything to say with a photo. If words do the job and you can't find a good photo, break the "one photo, one blog" rule!

(Whew, I made it to the end of the post without using some hackneyed "picture is a worth a thousand words" reference.)