Monday, April 21, 2014

'City folk just don't get it:' dating website for farmers sets sights on Canada - The StarPhoenix

By Chris Purdy, The Canadian Press: 'City folk just don't get it:' dating website for farmers sets sights on Canada

Chelsea and Daniel Seitz pose at their wedding on September 28, 2013 in Pierson, Man. An online dating site called FarmersOnly promised to steer him clear of city slicker singles and hook him up with potential partners.

Photograph by: THE CANADIAN PRESS , HO, Chris Jones

Daniel Seitz was at home on his family's farm in southeastern Saskatchewan, watching a TV agriculture report, when an ad popped up on the screen and tugged at his lonely heart.
An online dating site called FarmersOnly promised to steer him clear of city slicker singles and hook him up with potential partners looking for a man just like him, one comfortable in cowboy boots and living life on the land.
Two years later, the 27-year-old electrician and cattle farmer is newly married to a horse-riding farm girl who won him over with her smile, with a four-year-old step-daughter and a new baby on the way.
It's an online love story that FarmersOnly founder, Jerry Miller, is hoping to see more of in Canada...Continue reading...

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