Pollination on the Farm or Secrets of the 'Birds and the Bees'

Many Players appear to be confused with respect to Pollination and the methods by which Honey and Nectar are made in Family Farm.

You need a Beehive to make Honey and a Butterfly Home to make Nectar.  There are many different types of Beehives and each has its own rules.  Some are interested in a single Crop in the form of Clover or Lavender.  Others are interested in amny different Flowers and can produce Honey by pollinating any of the Flowers on the list. 

As far as Nectar is concerned, there is a list of Trees that the Butterflies will pollinate in order to produce the sweet substance.

Where ANY type of Honey or Nectar is concerned, however, TIME is the key.  You cannot harvest the Crop or Tree as soon as it is mature.  If you do so, you will not obtain the benefit of pollination and the Honey or Nectar that can be produced afterwards.  In some cases, you will see a prompt to the effect that the Crop or Tree has been pollinated but even if you do not see this prompt, there is an easy way to judge whether or not pollination has occurred.  Any pollinated Crop or Tree will change colour.  If the Crop or Tree remains its original colour, it has not been pollinated yet.

Remember always the 'Rule of Three'.  The maximum number of products that can be made is three.  If you fail to collect these products, no further products can be made until you clear the collection area.  Where Beehives and Butterfly Homes are concerned, it is easiest to set them to the Automation Mode and then you will obtain the maximum number of products from them.  If, however, you do not have sufficient OP, simply make certain first that you WAIT until pollination has occurred before you harvest a Crop or Tree and second, that you clear the collection area to allow more Honey or Nectar to be produced.

The Dessert Shop

There are plenty of excellent guides for the original Family Farm, but I thought I would post the Recipes for the new Dessert Shop for my own convenience and perhaps other players will find it somewhat useful.

Note that any Item made in the Dessert Shop, unlike those made in the Workshop, requires time to complete.   The selling Value of the Items are high, but the actual Profits may not justify the effort in every case. 

Dessert Shop Recipes:

Buttermilk:  351 Coins, 3 XP
  Ingredients: 3 Cow Milk, 3 Goat Milk, 3 Buffalo Milk
  Time: 1 Minute

Buttermilk Cake:  1868 Coins, 5 XP
  Ingredients: 2 Buttermilk, 5 Cornmeal, 5 Bird Eggs
  Time: 5 Minutes

Summer Berry Cake: 5527 Coins, 8 XP
  Ingredients:  10 Blueberry, 10 Cranberry,  2 Buttermilk Cake
  Time: 20 Minutes

Green Sugar: 834 Coins, 2 XP
  Ingredients: 3 Sugar, 3 Baobab Juice
  Time: 3 Minutes

Yellow Sugar:  604 Coins, 3 XP
  Ingredients:  3 Sugar, 3 ORange Juice
  Time: 8 Minutes

Red Sugar:  838 Coins, 23 XP
  Ingredients:  3 Sugar, 3 Pomegranate Juice
  Time: 15 Minutes

Buttermilk Cookie:  1918 Coins, 4 XP
  Ingredients: 2 Buttermilk,  3 Rye Flour, 2 Sugar
  Time:  10 Minutes

Chocolate Nut Cookie:  2332 Coins, 32 XP
  Ingredients:  1 Buttermilk Cookie, 3 Chocolate, 4 Macadamia Nut
  Time: 40 Minutes

Frosted Buttermilk Cookie: 4994 Coins, 6 XP
  Ingredients: 1 Buttermilk Cookie, 2 Green Sugar, 2 Yellow Sugar
  Time: 1 Hour