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It wouldn’t really be afarmingsim without a farming mechanic right at its core, andFae Farmhas 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!
Pay 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 07, 2025: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 fromMayor Merrittas she’s teaching you the lay of the land in Azoria. One of the first tasks she gives you on your Homestead inChapter Oneis toplant some Turnip seedson your new farm.
To do so, you’ll need to first put down someBasic Soil Bedssomeplace on your farm. There areseveral specific types of soil bedsthat you’ll unlock throughout the game, but for now, Basic Soil Beds will work just fine. These can be made in theConstruction menuwhen you’re standing on your Homestead property usingone Silt, one Sand, and one Beech Log.
Beech Logs and Silt are accessible on yourHomesteadto begin with and can befound throughout Azoriashould you run out at home -Beech Treescan be chopped to produceBeech Logs, and thepiles of dirtcan be dug up forSilt.
Sandacts much like Silt in that youdig it up,but you’ll need togo to the Beachand dig in the sand piles by the sea - those spit outSandinstead 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. Simplyaim where your farmer is lookingand place a soil bed when you’re over the right spot.
When the soil is down, you’ll needcrop seeds, which you can purchase fromHolly in Town Center- she’s to the right ofthe market tables, between Will and Aspen, at the beginning of the game. Other vendors from other regions includesFinnin theSkies of Azoria DLC.
Holly only sellsTurnips, Cauliflower, and Beansat first, but she’ll beginselling more seeds as your Farming levelincreases- not all crops are for beginners.
With seeds in hand, head back home andwalk into your Soil Beds to begin placing seeds. Once placed, they’ll need to bewatered once per day(provided it’s notraining, whichwaters the crops for you), so begin as soon as you plant them to speed up the harvest.
From there, it’s a game ofwatering and waiting. Be sure towater your crops every dayto 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 tospeed up the harvest time by one day, you can spread someZippy Fertilizeron your crops. Similarly, if you’d like a chance atgrowing additional crops per plantin each harvest, spreadBounteous Fertilizerinstead.
Either way, you’ll watch your plants grow a bit each day until they look likeentire vegetables instead of just plants. This means it’stime to harvest! To do so, justwalk over your crops again and pick them- they’ll go straight into yourInventoryonce you do.
At first, you’ll bepicking everything by hand, but you’ll soonunlock a magic spell, theVertex Spell, thatharvests all the crops in range.
Congrats on your first harvest! Now you can use those crops to eithermake mealson some of your cooking appliances to eithereat or sell, you cansell the crops outrightif you don’t want to wait the prep time, or you can use yourGardening Tabletoprocess one crop into three seedsof the same type.
Once you’ve begun venturing into the Mountains and dealing with the blizzardafter completing the Fae Realmarc and dungeon, you’ll gain access to the materials needed to makeSeasonal Soil Beds. When planted on any farm, these soil beds allow you togrow seasonal crops when it’s not the season they normally grow.
How To Grow Fruit Trees
Separate from your regular Azorian crops arefruit trees, which are a bitmore specialized than the regular plant and water crop variants. Fruit trees areseasonal 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 fromWillow in the Azoria town square, the first vendor to the right when you come down from your house. They’ll sellstandard 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 onpropegating your fruit trees with beehives. Beehives will coverthe eight squares immediately around the hive, and any trees in this range may producedifferent seasonal hybrid fruit treesyou can grow just the same.
Use Magic Crop Swap Fertilizer To Grow New Crops
Holly’s stock is limitedwhen you first start playing Fae Farm. She’s gotthree types of seedsto sell at first, but your Almanac lists dozens of plants and seeds in theGardening and Cropstab! To unlock the other Azorian crops, you’ll needMagic Crop Swap Fertilizer. This can be eitherpurchased from Hollyormade on a Garden Benchusingone Mulch, one Frog Sweat, and one Ammoniteper bag.
When spread on any of your base crops, you stand a chance togrow a similar but entirely separate cropthan what you planted. These alwayscome from the same six base seeds, but the resulting transformed cropchanges 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 toturn them into seeds at the Garden Table.
Doing so follows the same pattern of three seeds for every crop you process, soonce you’ve grown a seasonal crop, keep some seeds for next yearso 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 toDrakto learn a bit to use the Vortex spellyou just unlocked. He shows you how touse the Vortex spell to clear the black hazethat’s been looming over parts of Azoria -Hazy Haven, to be precise. It’s covered in haze, but after you clear it, youunlock the Hazy Haven houseand 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 bythe Wisp Motherovernight, asking you to come visit her. Follow thestairs up behind Hazy Havento find her, and begin her expansive series of tasks that lead you into theFae Realm. This area contains not only an entirely new town but anotheradditional farmthat you’ll eventually come to ownafter 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 theFae Realm marketplace. Not only do they sell regular Azorian crops, but they introduce you to the concept ofFae cropsas well. You’ll need a specialFae Soil Bed, which you may make forone Shade Jelly, one Flutterwood Log, and one Spriggan Leafeach.
Ifplanted at the Fae Home, your base crops may justturn into Fae crops. You can alsoplant the Fae Soil Beds in Azoriaif you’re opting to stay there for your home base, but you’ll needMagic Crop Swap Fertilizerto do so. Like seasonal varieties,Fae crops are their own variant of base cropsand 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’llunlock two new seeds per region of the skyyou access. These will need to be grown inStarsoil Bedsback 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!
Complete Crop Harvest Guide
In the table below, we’ve kept track ofevery cropin Fae Farm. We’ve included information likegrowing season, how long it takes toharvestafter planting, whether it’s aseasonal crop, and if itregrowswithout being replanted.
Grows in 4 days
Grows in 8 days
Grow in 12 days, and regrow every 4
Grow in 4 days
Orange or Grapefruit
Pomegranate or Apricot
4 days
6 days
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.
