One of the great joys of this job is coming across people like Ben Brooksby. He's just another farmer from somewhere in this wide brown land of ours - a crop and sheep farmer from Victoria. But he's also the man behind @nakedfarmers and the only one in a string of social media photos of farmers with clothes on. Admittedly he did start this whole thing after taking a pic of himself naked in lentils. (Which he presumably later sold to someone xx). The lentil bath got Ben thinking about the lives of farmers and how important it is for us non farmers to understand where our food comes from. Ben is now on a mission to educate us on just that - where our food comes from, how farmers live - the highs, lows, joys and the work as they go about their days, doing the things that ultimately puts food on our plates. He thought farmers getting their kit off would be a great way of getting people to sit down and notice our farmers first hand - and think a little about what they do for the rest of us. And strangely, he's right. Somehow the fact that all these farmers have nothing on makes you see into the images more and imagine their lives. We are going to suggest to him that his next stop is Ginny Stevens from Active Farmers, who often has a whole pile of farmers exercising in town parks.Many farmers do it tough as their livelihoods wax and wane with the fortunes of the weather and without them we would all be doing it even tougher. Next time you buy food online, go to the shop or the markets, buy fresh produce and know that you are helping to keep clothes onto the backs of our naked Aussie farmers! And next time you look down at any kind of produce on your plate, make sure you eat it all, don't waste any. Someone out there put in a hard days work to get it onto your plate.