It wouldn’t really be a farming sim without a farming mechanic right at its core, and Fae Farm has come more than prepared to deliver. With six base seeds and dozens of interesting seasonal or regional varieties to grow, your farmer will never be without something to do at the homestead!
RelatedFae Farm: All Scattered Scroll Locations
Scattered Scrolls unlock new furniture in Fae Farm, but finding it is a whole other story,
PostsPay a visit to Holly in Town Center and pick up a handful of base seeds and a few bags of fertilizers, and you’re on your way to a green thumb in no time! In our guide, we’re explaining everything you need to know about farming in Fae Farm.
Updated on June 24, 2024: With the Skies of Azoria DLC adding new crops to Fae Farm and the long-irritating fruit tree bug appearing to be fixed, we figured it was time to update our guide to growing crops in Fae Farm. Our Fae Farm farming guide (say that ten times fast!) now has more info and links than before about both base-game crops, fruit trees, and DLC crops.
How To Plant And Harvest Crops
In Fae Farm, you'll learn to farm fairly early on from Mayor Merritt as she's teaching you the lay of the land in Azoria. One of the first tasks she gives you on your Homestead in Chapter One is to plant some Turnip seeds on your new farm.
To do so, you'll need to first put down some Basic Soil Beds someplace on your farm. There are several specific types of soil beds that you'll unlock throughout the game, but for now, Basic Soil Beds will work just fine. These can be made in the Construction menu when you're standing on your Homestead property using one Silt, one Sand, and one Beech Log.
Beech Logs and Silt are accessible on yourHomestead to begin with and can be found throughout Azoria should you run out at home - Beech Trees can be chopped to produce Beech Logs, and the piles of dirt can be dug up for Silt.
Sand acts much like Silt in that you dig it up, but you'll need to go to the Beach and dig in the sand piles by the sea - those spit out Sand instead of Silt.
Once you're ready to put down your garden, you can place as many Soil Beds as you'd like at one time, given that your farmer has the materials. Simply aim where your farmer is looking and place a soil bed when you're over the right spot.
When the soil is down, you'll need crop seeds, which you can purchase from Holly in Town Center - she's to the right of the market tables, between Will and Aspen, at the beginning of the game. Other vendors from other regions includes Finn in the Skies of Azoria DLC.
Holly only sells Turnips, Cauliflower, and Beans at first, but she'll begin selling more seeds as your Farming level increases - not all crops are for beginners.
With seeds in hand, head back home and walk into your Soil Beds to begin placing seeds. Once placed, they'll need to be watered once per day (provided it's not raining, which waters the crops for you), so begin as soon as you plant them to speed up the harvest.
From there, it's a game of watering and waiting. Be sure to water your crops every day to ensure they grow in their usual time frame. If youmiss a day of watering, your crops will be behind a day for harvest, which may mess with your seasonal growth plans, so be careful! There isn't any rot past when the seasons change, though, so progress stays the same, just delayed by a day.
If you'd like to speed up the harvest time by one day, you can spread some Zippy Fertilizer on your crops. Similarly, if you'd like a chance at growing additional crops per plant in each harvest, spread Bounteous Fertilizer instead.
Either way, you'll watch your plants grow a bit each day until they look like entire vegetables instead of just plants. This means it's time to harvest! To do so, just walk over your crops again and pick them - they'll go straight into your Inventory once you do.
At first, you'll be picking everything by hand, but you'll soon unlock a magic spell, the Vertex Spell, that harvests all the crops in range.
Congrats on your first harvest! Now you can use those crops to either make meals on some of your cooking appliances to either eat or sell, you can sell the crops outright if you don't want to wait the prep time, or you can use your Gardening Tableto process one crop into three seeds of the same type.
Once you've begun venturing into the Mountains and dealing with the blizzard after completing the Fae Realm arc and dungeon, you'll gain access to the materials needed to make Seasonal Soil Beds. When planted on any farm, these soil beds allow you to grow seasonal crops when it's not the season they normally grow.
How To Grow Fruit Trees
Separate from your regular Azorian crops are fruit trees, which are a bit more specialized than the regular plant and water crop variants. Fruit trees are seasonal producers, meaning you'll only find them making fruit during a certain season (unless it remains unharvested - then the fruit stays on the trees, but no new ones wil grow).
These can be purchased from Willow in the Azoria town square, the first vendor to the right when you come down from your house. They'll sell standard fruit tree saplings, one for each season.
If you'd like to hybridize your fruit trees and make some new fruits, you'll need to rely on propegating your fruit trees with beehives. Beehives will cover the eight squares immediately around the hive, and any trees in this range may produce different seasonal hybrid fruit trees you can grow just the same.
Use Magic Crop Swap Fertilizer To Grow New Crops
Holly's stock is limited when you first start playing Fae Farm. She's got three types of seeds to sell at first, but your Almanac lists dozens of plants and seeds in the Gardening and Crops tab! To unlock the other Azorian crops, you'll need Magic Crop Swap Fertilizer. This can be either purchased from Holly or made on a Garden Bench using one Mulch, one Frog Sweat, and one Ammonite per bag.
When spread on any of your base crops, you stand a chance to grow a similar but entirely separate crop than what you planted. These always come from the same six base seeds, but the resulting transformed crop changes depending on the season.
However, since crops grow in groups from the same base seeds, seasonal crops have the same grow time as the base crop from which it was produced. For example, Turnips grow for four days, and so do the Radishes, Carrots, and Beets they produce through the year.
The progression from base crop to seasonal crop is almostentirely random, but a good way to grow more of these seasonal crops (which sell for more than their regular counterparts) is to turn them into seeds at the Garden Table.
Doing so follows the same pattern of three seeds for every crop you process, so once you've grown a seasonal crop, keep some seeds for next year so that you don't have to go through the transformation process again.
Regional Variants: Fae Realm Crops And DLC Crops
It's not long before you pay a visit to Drak to learn a bit more about how to use the Vortex spell you just unlocked. He shows you how to use the Vortex spell to clear the black haze that's been looming over parts of Azoria - Hazy Haven, to be precise. It's covered in haze, but after you clear it, you unlock the Hazy Haven house and can, among other things, move into the house.
You don't have to move off the Homestead if you'd like to stick around, but you're able to if you'd like to be closer to your next area of interest.
That night, you'll be called to by the Wisp Mother overnight, asking you to come visit her. Follow the stairs up behind Hazy Haven to find her, and begin her expansive series of tasks that lead you into the Fae Realm. This area contains not only an entirely new town but another additional farm that you'll eventually come to own after clearing the region's dungeon, the Floating Ruins.
Once the town fills back in after the miasma is cleared, you'll meet your new seed vendorto the right in the Fae Realm marketplace. Not only do they sell regular Azorian crops, but they introduce you to the concept of Fae crops as well. You'll need a special Fae Soil Bed, which you can make for one Shade Jelly, one Flutterwood Log, and one Spriggan Leaf each.
If planted at the Fae Home, your base crops may just turn into Fae crops. You can also plant the Fae Soil Beds in Azoria if you're opting to stay there for your home base, but you'll need Magic Crop Swap Fertilizer to do so. Like seasonal varieties, Fae crops are their own variant of base crops and will be logged in your Almanac like the seasonal crops.
DLC Crops
When growing crops from the Skies of Azoria DLC in Fae Farm, you'll unlock two new seeds per region of the sky you access. These will need to be grown in Starsoil Beds back at one of your farms below.
Despite growing in all seasons, the Skies of Azoria DLC crops wither on the first day of a new season like any other crop, so be mindful of when you plant them!
RelatedFae Farm: Complete Guide To Critters
Grab your Critter Net and catch all kinds of adorable new friends in Fae Farm.
PostsComplete Crop Harvest Guide
In the table below, we've kept track of every crop in Fae Farm. We've included information like growing season, how long it takes to harvest after planting, whether it's a seasonal crop, and if it regrows without being replanted.
Every Base Game And Fae Crop In Fae Farm
Turnip
Grows in 4 days
Cauliflower
Grows in 8 days
Beans
Grow in 12 days, and regrow every 4
Potato
Grow in 4 days
Corn
Grows in 8 days
Pepper
Grow in 12 days, and regrow every 4
Spring
Radish
Asparagus
Sugar Peas
Leek
Rice
Cucumber
Summer
Carrot
Artichoke
Eggplant
Onion
Wheat
Tomato
Autumn
Beet
Red Cabbage
Pumpkin
Garlic
Oats
Tomatillo
Winter
Fennel
Broccoli
Acorn Squash
Jewel Yam
Rye
Chili Pepper
Fae Crop
Frost Beet
Flame Heart
Magic Bean
Azure Spud
Candy Corn
Crystal Pepper
All Fruit Trees In Fae Farm
Fruit
Season
Nearby Beehives Create
Peach
Spring
Cherry
Pear
Summer
Orange or Grapefruit
Apple
Autumn
Pomegranate or Apricot
Plum
Winter
Persimmon
All Skies Of Azoria Crops In Fae Farm
Crop
Growth Time
Unlocks While Exploring
Starry Fruit
4 days
Windhaven (above Azoria)
Moon Melon
Cloudyflower
6 days
The Starlight Isles (above the Fae Realm)
Night Root
Calabash
8 days, then regrows every 4 days
Howling Heights (above the Mountains)
Crescent Chili
All Skies of Azoria seeds come from Finn's shop in Windhaven, but you'll need to unlock the other three regions through story progression to unlock the new seeds in their store.
NextIs Fae Farm Worth It?
Fae Farm mixes a few elements from cozy farming sim games to life simulators all in an adorable package, but is it right for you?
Posts
