Single Farmers On Facebook
SINGLE FARMERS AROUND Ireland are waiting for you…
Three Meath students from farming backgrounds are helping eligible bachelor farmers find love – via a Facebook page.
2,142 likes 120 talking about this. Meet Single Farmers - http://bit.ly/MeetFarmers. The buy-and-sell farmer’s market on the Facebook group includes farmers ranging from commercial to small-scale farmers. Participating group members post their products and buyers then express their interest in the comments section. The actual sale takes place offline. The group has gained increasing attention.
Source: Facebook/Farmers Daughters Blog
Farmers’ Daughters was set up in January by Carol Lawless, Rachel Day and Shannon Kelly-Smith as a way of sharing farming jokes with like-minded individuals.
Speaking on LMFM’s Late Lunch on Monday, Daly and Lawless said they soon found their true calling:
They started taking nominations for ‘Farmer of the Day’ posts, in which eligible bachelor (and sometimes bachelorette) farmers can show themselves off in the hopes of finding romance.
Special attention is paid to the applicants’ type of farm, acreage, their love of ‘the craic’, and of course – road frontage.
John Joe, one of the eligible farmers on the page Source: Facebook/Farmers Daughters Blog
For example, here’s the entry for one Bobby from Co Louth, a man “in dire need of a good country woman”:
And Alison from Co Tipperary, “one of the biggest pig farmers going”:
And Davy, a 'real ladies man' according to the girls Source: Facebook/Farmers Daughters Blog
Daly told LMFM that she’s still on the hunt for her own farmer, but the following criteria applies:
Single Farmers On Facebook Search
So lads and lassies, if you think you’re up to the task, you know where to go.