Farmer Seeks a Wife



No, this is not about the Fox reality show Farmer Wants a Wife. It’s actually about a farmer who lives off the grid in rural Kentucky and how he’s on a quest for love. Titus Morris has been living in a remote part of the Appalachian Mountains for 8 years now with no electricity, running water, cellphone, car, or even shoes in the summer. His daily routine includes farming potatoes, doing laundry in the neighboring river, and feeding his horses. His monthly expenditure is around $140: $20 a month for food for his dogs Sadie and Spartacus, $30 for produce he can’t grow, and $90 a month for a landline telephone, which has been installed in a shed by his home so he can share it with his neighbor. While his parents have electricity, running water, and even a computer, Titus decided to take things back further. While he's not Amish, Titus says he lives a similar lifestyle. He lives in a mobile home on a 50-acre plot, with about 20 acres being open pasture and the other 30 woodland. As for transportation, he uses a horse and carriage. Now, Titus has shared his phone number in a bid to find love. “I think the only thing I’m missing really is someone to share this life with me and children.” Adding to the mystery, he has no official form of ID. His parents got him a Social Security number as a child, but he never signed the card and later decided to revoke it. Then his birth certificate got washed away in a flood, and he’s never had a driver’s license. “I don’t exist in the eyes of the government, but I do exist in the lives of the people who know me and my Father in heaven.”