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 News from Around the Americas | September 2005 
Farmer Turns Field Into Personal Ad
 AP
| | Pieter DeHond's field doubles as a personal ad. |
Canandaigua, New York - It sounds a little corny.
A farmer looking for love has planted a personals ad, using corn stalks in a cow pasture. It reads: "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm-N."
Underneath is a 1,000-foot-long arrow pointing single white females to his house.
"It only took me about an hour - I did it with a corn planter in May," Pieter DeHond said Wednesday as he removed weeds from the 18-acre field. "I was just horsing around."
In place of a newspaper ad, DeHond said he decided on an impulse to use up the extra corn seed left after spring planting at his 200-acre Pleasure Acres farm in western New York.
"I wouldn't place a personal ad in the paper. To me it seems desperate," he added, laughing. "This is more of a fun thing. I put this out in a field where nobody could see it unless you flew over it."
The 41-year-old divorced father said running a business and looking after his two teenagers doesn't leave a lot of room for socializing.
His corn stalk appeal, featured this week in his hometown Daily Messenger newspaper, has already drawn quite a few phone calls and emails.
"I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little proud," DeHond said. |
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