“We Eat Like This Every Day”: SA Woman Shows What It’s Like Being a Swiss Farmer’s Wife for a Day
- Siphelele 'Popi' Sibiya, the creator behind The Popi Show, shared a day-in-the-life vlog from a dairy farm in Switzerland
- Popi mucked stalls, milked cows, and hunted for apples to bake her host's birthday pie on the Swiss farm
- South Africans in the comments were charmed by the unfiltered look at Swiss farm life and called for Popi to get her own Netflix show
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Source: Instagram
Siphelele "Popi" Sibiya, the Eastern Cape-born travel vlogger and creator of The Popi Show, gave her 335,000 Instagram followers a front-row seat to Swiss farm life in a reel that had Mzansi completely hooked.
The video, posted on @popi_sibiya's Instagram page, follows her through a full day on a Swiss dairy farm, presented as if she were the farmer's wife for the day. She woke up to an early morning milking session, swept out hay from the barn, cleaned cow stalls, and chatted with the farmer and his father, who she initially mistook for grumpy before realising he was simply a quiet man.
Swiss farm life, unfiltered
What made the reel so watchable was Popi's trademark humour. She narrated the day with cheeky on-screen captions, pointing out that the cows had already been milked before most people had even opened their eyes. She joked about the smelly business of cleaning the barn, then turned around and said she loved the money that farming brings in. By 7 am, her host had already peeled a full pot of potatoes, and breakfast was a spread of potatoes and cheese that Popi declared she absolutely loved.
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The highlight of the day came when her "husband" requested apple pie for his birthday. With the apple trees looking bare, Popi climbed a ladder, hunted through the branches, and eventually collected a small haul of apples in her T-shirt, kangaroo-pouch style. Back in the kitchen, she got to work baking the pie from scratch.
All about Switzerland
Switzerland is home to roughly 47,000 small, family-run farms, with dairy and livestock farming dominating because the mountainous terrain limits large-scale crop production. Only about 2.2% of the Swiss workforce is employed in agriculture, making this kind of immersive farm experience a rare window into a quietly vital part of Swiss culture.
Popi closed the reel by teasing her next stops: France, Italy, and Spain, all exclusive content reserved for her Instagram Close Friends subscribers.
Watch the full Swiss farmer's wife day on Instagram here.
Mzansi wants Popi on Netflix
South Africans flooded the comments on @popi_sibiya's reel with love and laughter:
@akummaloto said:
"Bethuna Popsicle needs her own show on @netflixsa please 😍❤️"
@its_b3ll_ wrote:
"I love close friends so much, it's worth every cent! You guys are missing out 😂"
@madolzie added:
"You are such a great storyteller and creative 😂. I love how you've summarised the Swiss stay and how the reel came out. 🔥🔥❤️"
@missnaycotton reacted:
"Your life is a movie 😍❤️"
@massy_msclaire said:
"I should be in close friends, goodbye Netflix 😂😂"
@th3divinedream called it:
"Definitely a 'Popsicle euro summer'! ❤️"
@sine_gugulethu summed it up:
"You are soooo cool!! Like really cool 😎 Captain of the cool kids 👌🏽"
Source: Instagram
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