HOW TO KNOW IF YOU’RE A “FARM PERSON”
You’re stuck in traffic (God forbid it’s Silk Board traffic) and all you can hear around you is the blaring sound of horns from every vehicle around you. If you’re craving an escape from that chaos and are longing for some peace and quiet then stick around, because this might be a sign that you’re a “farm person”.
THE SIGNS
If you constantly find yourself planning short getaways far from the city… If your Instagram explore page is filled with misty hills, forest cabins, and slow-living reels, it’s probably not just a phase. Maybe you enjoy long drives not just for the change of scenery, but for the stillness in between. Maybe you crave quiet mornings, trees instead of traffic, fresh air over air conditioning. Maybe you’ve started getting tired of sitting in closed rooms with recycled AC air that somehow makes you feel more restless than refreshed. If you find yourself saying “I just need some space” more often lately, you’re not alone.
Maybe you’re not looking to quit your job or go off-grid completely. You’re not planning to start farming full-time or live in the woods. But you’re probably searching for something that doesn’t come with screen time or city noise, a place to pause, recharge, and feel grounded again. And when all those quiet cravings, for nature, for simplicity, for peace, start to align, it’s worth listening. You might just be a “farm person” … without realising it yet.
WHAT A “FARM PERSON” DOESN’T MEAN
Being a “farm person” doesn’t mean throwing your laptop into a pond or swapping your city shoes for gumboots. It doesn’t mean waking up at sunrise to sow seeds, digging through soil, or spending weekends bent over a compost bin. You don’t need to know how to manage irrigation systems, plant banana trees, or run a tractor.
It also doesn’t mean quitting your job, giving up your city comforts, or moving off-grid to live a minimalist life in the middle of nowhere. That’s a lifestyle choice, not a prerequisite.
Being a “farm person” isn’t about extremes. It’s not about hard labour or abandoning everything that’s familiar. You don’t need to be a full-time farmer, an environmentalist, or someone who’s obsessed with rural life.
You can enjoy the idea of owning land without needing to become an expert in agriculture. You can appreciate nature without having to dedicate your life to it. You can crave a slower pace without rejecting the fast one entirely.
At its core, being a “farm person” doesn’t demand a change in who you are, it simply rejects the idea that you have to fit into a narrow stereotype to feel connected to land.
HOW YOU KNOW FOR SURE
Once you start noticing how you feel in different spaces, it becomes pretty clear. The city keeps you busy, but it also leaves you feeling a bit drained, like you’re always catching up. But the second you’re around trees, or just somewhere quiet, something shifts. You’re not trying to relax, you just do.
It’s in the little things. Taking your shoes off and standing on bare ground. Watching something grow and realising you kind of care. Sitting on the ground doing nothing, and actually enjoying it. You feel calmer. Lighter. Your mind feels less full. You don’t have to do much, just being there is enough.
Sometimes, even in the middle of a grocery run, it sneaks up on you—when you pick up a mango from the supermarket shelf and, for a second, you’re not there. You’re back under a tree, reaching up, picking it fresh, feeling the sun on your face. And maybe, deep down, you want your kids to know that version of the world too. To experience fruit that still smells like the season it came from, air that hasn’t been filtered, and joy that doesn’t need charging.
And if that keeps happening, if you find yourself feeling better, clearer, more at ease every time you’re in that kind of space, then that’s probably it.
You’re a “farm person”, not because someone told you, but because your body remembers.
Maybe you always were.
