U of G Alum Hayden Fox Takes Great Pride in Being ‘The Fruity Farmer’

Jun 20, 2023

The first time Hayden Fox posted to TikTok was to share an inside joke that has left farmers chuckling for years. A fourth-generation farmer himself, Fox was delivering a load of straw to a customer who kept calling it hay.

A man with a big smile wearing a green backwards ball cap stands with a red, orange, yellow and green Pride flag in his hand.
Hayden Fox stands atop a 120 foot tall grain elevator on his farm to hang a Pride flag after the first one was stolen from his property. (TikTok)
Niche content? Fox certainly thought so. As it turns out, the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) alum had unknowingly tapped into a corner of the social media platform where an eager audience awaited.

Thirty thousand views later, Fox realized: “Oh wow, people actually care about this stuff.”

It may be because Fox provides a unique view on agriculture. He challenges farming stereotypes at every turn as a 25-year-old, queer farmer with two million followers on TikTok.

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