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Handsome bachelor rancher in his late forties with dark wavy hair, light stubble and hazel eyes leaning on a wooden fence next to a palomino horse among Sonoma vineyards at golden hour

My Horse Escaped 14 Times in One Month, and Every Time I Found Him in the Garden of the Same Woman. She Was a Retired Opera Singer, and She Was Not Amused

My gelding Bandit has never jumped a fence in his life. Then a woman bought the old farmhouse next to my ranch in Sonoma, and every morning at nine, he was gone. I’d find him standing in her rose garden, ears forward, completely hypnotized. It took me fourteen escapes to find out why.

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Handsome man in his late forties with light brown hair, short beard and blue eyes standing by a wooden fence in a green Utah valley with mountains behind him at golden hour

I’m Allergic to Bees. Deathly Allergic. So Naturally I Agreed to Spend the Summer Helping the Beekeeper Next Door Save 2 Million of Them

Two years ago, a single bee sting put me in the hospital for three days. I carry two EpiPens everywhere. Then a widowed beekeeper moved onto the farm next to mine in Cache Valley, Utah, a hailstorm wrecked her hives, and she needed a strong pair of hands for one summer. Mine were the only ones available.

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Handsome rancher in his late forties with dark brown hair, a well-groomed short beard, gray-green eyes and a cowboy hat standing in golden wheat hills near Pendleton Oregon at golden hour

Every Thursday the Most Eligible Rancher in Pendleton Drove 90 Miles Out of Town and Came Back With Glitter in His Beard. The Whole County Wanted to Know Why. I Was That Rancher

In a town of seventeen thousand people, a single rancher can’t sneeze without three women bringing soup. So when I started disappearing every Thursday afternoon and coming home at midnight with glitter in my beard, Pendleton, Oregon, lost its mind. There were theories. A secret wife. A cult. Witness protection. The truth was worse. Much, much worse.

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Handsome bachelor farmer in his mid forties with tousled light brown hair, a short beard and blue eyes holding a big orange pumpkin in a pumpkin field in Illinois at golden hour, flannel shirt with sleeves rolled up

A TV Station Interviewed Me About My Pumpkin Farm for 40 Seconds. By Morning, 9 Million People Had Watched It, and 600 Women Were Lined Up at My Gate

Every October, a local news crew comes out to my family’s pumpkin farm in central Illinois to film the harvest. Forty seconds of B-roll, a quick question, done. This year, the reporter asked me what makes a perfect pumpkin, I said one sentence, and by breakfast the next morning, the internet had decided I was “the hottest farmer in America.”

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