The Farmer Wants a Wife (FWAW) Farmers have been whittling down the Ladies in the hope of finding their future wife, but the majority of the women still in the running don’t actually have first-hand experience living on a farm.
So, if they’re chosen by the Farmers and make the move to rural life, will they be expected to roll up their sleeves and get to work mustering cattle, feeding livestock, mending fences, driving tractors and tackling the countless other jobs that keep a farm running?
Farmer Dylan, Farmer Jason and Farmer Alex have answered that very question, and fortunately for their Ladies, they won’t be expected to do too much of the heavy lifting when it comes to life on the farm.
“I didn’t expect her to work with me. I mean, it’s ideal if we can share that life together, but I’m very strong on having a partner that has her own ambitions and drive and wants to achieve her own goals,” Farmer Dylan told Chattr.
“I’ve got [my goals] and I want someone to jump on board with me, but at the same time, like it’s no good chasing my dream if you’ve got your own, and I’m a strong believer in that.”
Farmer Jason said that he’d prefer that his partner leaves the farm work to him.
“I’m happy for them to have their own career and that sort of thing. I don’t know if I’d want to work with my partner, they might get the sh**s with me during the day or something,” he laughed.
Farmer Alex said that while he’s open to his winner helping out with daily duties, he wouldn’t expect them to come in and be a full time farm hand.
“Live with, and maybe assist, but ultimately it’s, it’s really appealing to me, having a partner that’s out there collecting their own stories about life and bringing things back to the house that they can tell about what they’ve seen in the world. If you’re both living the same life, it’s not very fun,” he explained.
Do past FWAW winners help their Farmers with farm work?
Farmer Corey and Keeley fell in love on FWAW 2025 and quickly became fan favourites. Now, a year and a half later, the couple are still going strong and have opened up to Chattr about what day-to-day life looks like on Corey’s farm. While Keeley works full-time in a nearby town, Corey spends his days keeping the farm running.
“Keeley’s still working in town at the moment, she’s basically practicing as an optometrist most of the time, She has a little bit of fill in work, just at the hospital as the Allied Health assistant up there. So during the week, it’s pretty normal. I’m on the farm, and Keeley’s in town working,” Corey told us.
“But when it comes to the weekend, we always get around and have a look around. And normally I’m doing something on a Saturday on the farm, because farmers are busy, and sometimes Sundays, but normally try to get those off. But, we normally, normally do a bit together on the farm on Saturdays.”
Keeley added that weekends are often spent together on the property, checking in on different parts of the farm, seeing what jobs need doing and soaking up the peaceful rural lifestyle.
“I think it’s like a Sunday tradition that we go and get a coffee from in town and then we go on a farm tour and that’s pretty much every week without fail.”
Farmer Wants A Wife airs at 7pm on Mondays and 7:30pm on Tuesdays on Channel 7 and streams on 7Plus.
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