How to Meet and Date a Farmer

Even though still in its infancy, there is a distinct trend in most modern societies of going back to the roots. This can take varied forms ranging from a return to rural lifestyle to growing your own produce or simply buying local. In such scenarios, the prospect of dating singles from farming and rural communities seem highly attractive. If you think so too, here are a few ways you can get started on meeting a farmer.

Go Online

Dating sites are usually not associated to finding love in the countryside. But when all the singles in a farming community have already met – and not clicked – at church fetes, fairs and village socials, there have to be other platforms to bring the unattached together. Also people live quite far from each other in rural communities and one of the best ways to bridge distances is internet. Most importantly dating sites are handy resources for city singles who are keen to meet potential partners from farming communities. For better responses, choose sites which cater not just for farmers, but also a wide range of both country dwellers and people who enjoy spending time in the country. Such people could include horse riders, lovers of country sports and members of associated rural communities. Ultimately, however, anyone seeking to meet someone passionate about the outdoors should interest you. After you sign up, searching for other registered singles based on zipcode and interests. Keep in mind that not all contacts at these sites may be savvy with hi-tech dating tools like web-chatting or creating a personal video profile. Furthermore, stick to dating service providers that preferably offer telephone support to help counter any dilemmas that such a person may have using its website.

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Get the local news

If you are keen to meet singles from the farming community to which you have just moved, you need to be aware of the social, political and economic context of the place. And your best bet of doing this would be to subscribe to the local newspaper. Arrange for a mail subscription and if that's not possible, find out where to obtain the newspaper locally. Small-town newspapers are usually published midweek, so if you can't pick up a copy till the weekend, make arrangements to have one set aside. You can pick up important cues of the social climate and dating scene by reading the "Letters to the Editor," feature articles, and columns written by local people. All this will tell you which are the places like pubs and stores where the local singles hang out and about important events in the social calendar of the community like festivals, dances, parades and fetes.

Local Hangouts

A farming village or even town will probably have just a couple of popular hangouts – this may be a pub, a bar, the café or in a really small place, several things rolled into one like the post office which also doubles up as the main store and coffee shop. So a good idea would be to become a familiar face at these hangouts which will help you spot the singles in the farming community since inevitably they would troop in here for a drink or a snack. Even if you cannot meet the singles at the first opportunity, get talking to other locals like the store keeper, the bartender or the post-mistress who will let on valuable nuggets about who is dating whom and who is on the verge of breakup and thus open to mingling again. The advantage of a small farming community is that people are usually clued in on each other’s personal affairs and so after a few rounds of drinks with the local patrons, it should not be too difficult for you to get all the news about the singles scene.

Volunteer

A great way of meeting singles among farmers is to get involved with community initiatives which will not only throw you in contact with the locals but also endear you to them for helping out. Farming communities usually need all the help they can during harvest or reaping season and even if you don’t posses any agricultural skills, you can still volunteer to bring snacks, cooling beverages or steaming cups of coffee to those working long hours in the fields.  Alternately think about getting involved in the organizing of country fetes, harvest festivals and fundraisers for farm hands. If you live in a city far away from farms, attending such fairs and festivals are a particularly good way of mingling with singles of the farming community. Even if there aren’t such opportunities where you live, choose volunteer work in your village or rural community, for instance if you are a book lover, offer your services as a part-time librarian; on the other hand if you are fond of gardening, you could get involved with maintenance of the parks and landscaping in the community.

Be prepared

If you are thinking of moving to a farming community as part of your search for single farmers to date, it would be a good idea to bear in mind your lifestyle needs that you cannot do without. If for instance you are a person to whom art and culture are important, you may feel unhappy in a primarily agricultural community. Each community will have things you like and other things you don't. You can obtain a variety of information about communities through the local Chamber of Commerce, mayor's office, nearby community college, extension office of the state university, library, bookstores, and individual civic and business leaders. All this will let you know from before what the community offers.  For instance whether the community has  cultural or art agency. Other items on your "must have" list may include education, the cost of living, real estate, or the local economy. Also farmers’ homes are very far from each other so if your idea of a good life is hectic socializing and frequent partying, a farmer may not be the kind of partner you would want to settle with. Then again farming communities are primarily family-oriented which is why living together without getting married may invite a few raised eyebrows and if you are not the kind of person to have children, you may feel out of place in this social context. Finally while the farms may look picturesque , a farmer’s work can get quite messy and smelly, not to mention that income partly depends on seasons and weather patterns – factors usually beyond human control. On the upside however you are sure to  be to lead a healthy and good quality of life, far away from the pollution and mindless consumerism of the city. But it is always a good idea to make sure that a farming lifestyle meets your needs before you fall in love with a farmer rather than hooking up with someone and then realizing that you cannot move there after all.