Tag: Illinois

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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