YOU could be living on a farm in the country for just $1 per week.

That’s what rural Aussie towns are offering in a bid to get young families to move in and help repopulate.

But there’s a catch. Your children will have to enrol at the local school and you might have to renovate the house a bit.

Residents of villages including Cumnock, Molong and Bonshaw are in on the deal.

The farmers in the towns hope the cheap rentals will entice families with school-going children to move to the countryside and help repopulate the local schools to keep them open, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Cumnock resident Christine Weston, is the driving force behind the Rent-a-farmhouse program and said it was successfully tried back in 2008.

But with the previous wave of kids having grown up, she said it was time to revisit the idea.

And one Central Coast family of six has already moved into a five-bedroom, $1-a-week cottage on Ms Weston’s farm.

“Country life still appeals to many families, but it doesn’t always make financial sense for them. “We’re trying to change that,” Ms Weston told The Daily Telegraph.

“We offer $1 rent on the condition that the families who move in have kids, but can also contribute to bush communities with skills we’re short of.”

Tradie families are also welcome.

Many of the 30-odd farmhouses currently offered on the Cumnock entrepreneur’s online portal Rentafarmhouse.com.au require renovating, so building skills could be a distinct advantage for the applicant.

“Some of the farmhouses need a little restoration work or the farmer may want someone who is able to look after the farm while he is away,” Ms Weston said