Farmer Wants a Wife will return April 21 — but Us has a behind-the-scenes tour right now.
In the video above, check out an exclusive look at the farm where they filmed the upcoming fourth season of the hit reality TV show.
“This is what we call the Party Barn,” new contestant Sean Cavanaugh exclusively tells Us Weekly in the footage, taking viewers around his family’s farm in Solvang, CA. “And during the show I brought five girls back and we all stayed here and then we did some farm activities around the property.”
Cavanaugh also showcased a horse barn with three pastures and plenty of farm animals — including a big bull!
This season will have three leading men (down from the usual four): Cavanaugh, Braden Pridemore and Brett Maverick. Once again, host Kimberly Williams-Paisley will be there for the guys as big-city gals compete for their love — and a few are in for the usual culture shock.
“I think there’s a lot of misconceptions about what I do,” Pridemore, 26, said to Us. “People think you just hop on a tractor and plant [a crop], then wait a few months and take it out. But there’s so much involved. Being a farmer, you’ve got to be a businessman, an agronomist, a mechanic — you’ve got to be all these things.”
(An agronomist, for anyone wondering, is an agriculturist who deals specifically with soil management and field-crop production.)
Maverick, 36, was excited to expand his dating pool. “I thought this would be a good opportunity to meet people I’d never meet any other way,” he said.
And Cavanaugh, 23, who grew up in Maui, Hawaii, thought it would be the perfect time to show some skin. “I fell into that trap pretty quickly,” he told Us with a laugh. “I know I’m going to be shirtless a whole bunch on the season. If I could go back, I wouldn’t have done it. But it is what it is!”
The guys are, of course, mum on whether any of them found their perfect farm girl, but Maverick teases, “We all had a really good time.”
And the Farmer family made sure the newest contestants were primed for love — and TV — success before they even started filming. One former Farmer advised Cavanaugh to just be himself, which helped ease his nerves. “I’ve never been a TV guy,” he said. “When I walked in the barn [on the Nashville, Tennessee set], I remember looking around at all the lights and cameras. I was like, ‘How the heck did I get here?’ So I just took their words of advice [about] staying true to who I am and did exactly that.”
Farmer Wants a Wife season 4 premieres on Fox Tuesday, April 21, at 8 p.m. ET.
