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Ok! You’ve made yourself familiar with the toolbars and know how to change your settings, so now it’s time to plant!

When you first set up your Farm Town account, you were given 500 coins and 6 plots of land in various stages of growth. There is one bare plot with no crop planted, one that was just planted (if you hover over it you’ll see it’s a 0%) and the others are at various stages up to ready to harvest.

You’ll learn that you want to hire people to harvest your crops for you because you earn more coins that way, but just to get some practice go ahead and choose the scythe tool and hover it over that potato field that’s ready to harvest and click it. You’ll see that it goes to a harvested field state. Now click the hoe tool and click that same square. You’ll see it go to the plowed field state. Click in the grass next to that square and you’ve just plowed another field. You may also notice that your coins decrease by 20 and your experience points increase by one.

You advance in the game by accumulating experience points and there are a couple of different ways to get those. Plowing is one way and as you’ll see when you plant a crop in that plowed field, you’ll get 2 experience points for that. Plow a few fields then go to the store and let’s see what we can plant

First crop is grapes which are only 20 coins to plant — but it says harvest time is 4 hours. If you’re not going to be around in 4 hours, don’t plant grapes as each crop will go to waste (die) if not harvested within the same time period of planting, so  you have about 8 hours total before the grapes go to waste.

Tomatoes cost 50 coins, but they take 2 days to ripen, so that might be a better crop to start with. Of course you have to take into consideration how many coins you have available.

What if you’ve spent them all plowing? How can you earn more coins?

You go to the market place to hire on as a farm worker. To get there, click on the map and choose Market place. It’s a busy place with lots of people standing around asking for work. Don’t beg like you see some others doing, but it doesnt’ hurt to say you’e just starting out and would appreciate a break. Of course if you’ve been on Facebook long and have a bunch of friends, chances are some of them are playing FarmTown and you can get them to be your neighbors. Having neighbors is an important part of the game. You can have up to 80 neighbors. It’s great to have neighbors who will hire you to harvest their crops. In turn you’ll hire them to harvest yours as well and it’s a win-win situation. Then when you’re advanced enough to hire on to plow, you’ll not only earn coins, but experience points, too making it that much easier and faster to advance in the game.

Besides plowing and planting, you can also earn experience points by buying items from the shop for your farm. Flowers, buildings, paths, ponds, and other items all add to your experience points, but of course you have to have those coins to purchase them and the only way to get coins is to harvest — either your own or other people’s crops.

Strategy tip: Set your preferences to remove spaces and plow your plots close together. You’ll get more crops in that way.

Strategy tip: If you know you’re going to be around to harvest, plant short term crops so you can repeat several times. You may not earn as many coins as you would with some of the longer term crops, but you’ll get the experience points that let you level up. Leveling up gives you access to new crops, and items from the shop and enables you to give nifty gifts to your friends and neighbors.

Strategy tip: Try to get plowing jobs as often as you get harvesting jobs. While harvesting jobs add to your bankroll, the plowing jobs give you those important experience points (as well as a token amount of cash).

Strategy tip: Buy and plant flowers — they give you experience points just like planting crops. Besides, they’ll spruce up the place. Gifted flowers do not give you experience points only purchased ones do.

Strategy tip: Have your neighbors send you trees instead of livestock or flowers — you can harvest the trees once they’ve borne fruit and they’ll regrow the fruit, so it’s a replenishment crop. Doesn’t pay a lot, but it’s coins.

Someone on the forums has compiled a spreadsheet of each crop and the profit from it. If you’re needing coins for that Gazebo or the water wheel, (or the mansion), planting the highest paying crops just makes sense.

Final Strategy tip of the day: The forums have a lot of valuable information in them. Do try to visit them often to find out the latest about Farm Town.

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