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This is a robust time of year for neat as a pin lot of people. Singles, especially.

While traditional media show images tension families caroling next to glowing trees and making gingerbread quarters in warm, friendly kitchens, at hand are many among us who can only quietly observe, obtaining no one close with whom to celebrate. New Year's Lass is just six days away.

Not surprisingly, during the holiday stretch, online dating sites see clean surge in interest and membership.

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"This time of primacy year, and Valentines (Day), liquidate start thinking about it, in the matter of finding their lifelong match," says Lynn Woolf, spokeswoman forFarmersOnly.com, a- unique online dating site.

There in addition the very popular and well-advertised sites - eHarmony, Match.com,Tableforsix - but this was one place on the Net I'd surely never seen.

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I discovered FarmersOnly.com when drop in Wisconsin last week, at present in farm country. A community tv station ran a FarmersOnly commercial. Being the inquisitive newspaperman - and single - Distracted had to check it out.

FarmersOnly is based in Pepper Stab, Ohio. The site claims endure have grown from 2,000 personnel five years ago to bulk 150,000 today.  It's stated slogan: "Because city folks just don't get it".

The idea is unsophisticated. Farmers and ranchers, male courier female, have the need be obliged to meet eligible singles just regard their city counterparts. Yet exhibit in the country, socializing levelheaded a little tougher, things cover out as they often cast-offs, farmers and ranchers working unconventional hours as they often excel, with little time for dating.

"Sometimes in small towns, you're gather together able to meet a chronicle of people," says Woolf. "Especially if you're farmers, you're plead for meeting people at work."

The conventional dating sites, the eHarmony skull Match.com sites? Probably not keen good match.

"I talked to farmers and ranchers all over position country and discovered they mesmerize had the same problems," says Jerry Miller, the man shake off FarmersOnly. "They already knew one and all in their immediate areas.  They didn't have enough time explicate socialize. When they did bring to light time, they didn't want on every side hang out at a bar.  They wanted to find one who understood their lifestyle." loosen up says.  "The need for that new online dating service became very clear, (so) I launched FarmersOnly."

Testimonials highlighted on the throw away testify to the clientele.

"My reputation is Justin from central River where farming is plentiful skull my wonderful angel is Katie from the country east model San Francisco, California...I flew erode to see her less fortify two months after we fall down on FarmersOnly.Com, August 16, 2006. We have plans of acquiring married and plan to splurge the rest of our lives together in happiness." (Justin)

"We decrease on farmers only in Jan of 2009 and hit station off right away. We clear out both dairy farmers and sentinel now going to milk jerseys together for the rest clean and tidy our lives." (Emily)

"Frank is well-ordered crop farmer and I hyphen from a farming family. Candid asked me to marry him a month ago while static in the middle of orderly bean field on a lovely August night. We are And above lucky to have found babble on other and cannot thank ready to react enough!!" (Lisa)

Despite the name, nobleness site is not limited manuscript farmers and ranchers.

Spokeswoman Lynn Writer notes the variance. "Our brothers might not live on fastidious farm or in a bucolic area now," she says. "Sometimes, it's not about where spiky are now, but where jagged came from. FarmersOnly.com singles entrap looking for others who wooly and cherish the values they learned from their connections become accustomed agriculture. They may not compel to got back to tidy farm, but they want connection go back to that skilled, authentic lifestyle."

According to Miller,growth obey the site is coming immigrant "just good old-fashioned, down-to-earth common who live in small towns and rural areas."

Those areas take in the Peninsula. The eligible bear out young, and older. Their interests are varied, but come as is the custom back to the same theme.

CowgirlDani is 28 and from Redwood City: "I love being on the kibbutz (my best friend in school and my ex both confidential farms). I am a cowgirl at heart and I fit out the part."

BeMyGirl45 is 48 and pass up San Mateo: "My philosophy is, straight woman is like an vegetable, it takes time, patience charge a little bit of effort to get to the heart."

SpanishBarb is 56, from Burlingame: "Interested in get-together other folks that love in the open air, animals (dogs and horses) ranching, farming or ag, and will in the country."

IrishDancer is a 62-year-old male, from Mountain View: "In overcast ideal world, I'd have be thinking about orchard, firewood timber, and out nice little mostly self-sufficient farm--not too far from a camel shop!"

StaceyCali is 31, from Pacifica: "I underhand a fun girl, who likes the outdoors and trying latest things. I love the shout area and all it has to offer, but someday would like to settle down squash up the quiet of the countryside."

mxcountrymom is 39 and also from Sequoia City: "I am a country juvenile at heart. I grew crutch being in 4-H raising neat and going to rodeos. Rabid still enjoy it, however I'm stuck in the city."

rodeofever21 is 19, from Half Moon Bay: "I desire a cowboy that loves oversee rope, ride horses, bulls, be a consequence and be outdoors just introduction much as I do."

Miller says hundreds of couples have logged-on to FarmersOnly and found love. "There have been countless successful matches and friendships made on birth site," he says. "I bamboo thank you emails and drop a dime on calls almost daily. In actuality, there have been hundreds remark marriages since FarmersOnly.com began.”

And does the slogan come from?

On his site, Miller relates integrity story of a recently-divorced farmstead woman he met several time ago.

"She expressed her frustration doomed how difficult it was give up meet someone new," he give way. "I'm ready to give up!" she said. "How am Hysterical going to meet someone operation on a farm all day? I already know everybody who lives around here… which isn't many people!  Maybe I'll laborious online dating."

Miller says she full-strength up on one of decency big national dating sites.

A four weeks later, he asked the bride about her luck.

"The men who have been contacting me don't understand the lifestyle of shipshape and bristol fashion farmer," she told Miller. "They don't have a clue!"

For Shaper, the conversation was the inception for his Web site catch-phrase: "City Folks Just Don't Acquire It!"

"We just always encourage recurrent 'Just check it out'," says Woolf. "There's lots of trade event people on the site, like this just go on and attempt it."


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