Here’s a fun one for you: weed dating.

“How will I ever meet someone in this concrete jungle?” laments the lonely plantain …

Photo of broadleaf plantain by Ernst Schütte via Wikimedia Commons

Just kidding. Weed dating is not a service for unloved plants (or any other recently legalized vegetation).

It’s a newfangled way for earthy singles to meet and mingle within their comfort zone …

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… the farm, of course!

“Weed dating is the gardener’s version of speed dating, where singles meet over a vegetable bed and dig together for a few minutes before moving onto the next person, some even learning about the plants they are tending,” reports NBC News.

A woman wistfully awaits her weed date …

Photo by Jack Delano via Wikimedia Commons

(where is he?)

as she dares to dream of what could be …

Tee-hee!

All giggles aside, though, weed dating is turning out to be a wonderful way for people to connect in person rather than online (ick) in a wholesome environment rather than, say, a bar (double ick).

How cute is this?

And, who knows? Weed daters might just sow a match made to last!

American Gothic by Grant Wood, 1930, via Wikimedia Commons

Want to host a Weed Dating event at your farm this year? Check out the way they do it at Earth Dance Farm.