I FINALLY decide to work a farm...

ETA: The reason I got an error was because I didn't have enough Sim points. I shut down my game, bought some points and it let me make the purchase and download. Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has this problem.

Playing an actual farm is very fun and rewarding. I have several throughout each of the worlds and they all are a lot of work! One of my favorite farms to play is located in Riverview. On this farm I have x1 cow, x3 chicken coops, x4 bee boxes, x2 horses, x2 hunting dogs (they hunt gems), x1 hunting cat (she hunts small animals) and, a double sized garden (based on x2 Swift grow stations placed side by side) which grows produce to be sold at my farmers market and to the local grocery store. This household also owns and operates various businesses in town so, there is always something to do and never a dull moment.

The other farms I play are:
1. Vegetable Farms
2. Fruit Orchids
3. Dairy Farms
This one requires being able to grow the egg, cheese, steak and patty plants. Tofu and roasts are provided by way of the Omni plant.
4. Catfish Farms
This farm harvests perfect quality recipe fish and sells them at their family-owned fish store. As-well-as to the local restaurants.
**To create this type of farm, have your Sim fish until they catch perfect quality fish, catch 10 of the same fish and create a pond on your home lot to populate these in. Every day or as needed, just fish the fish out of your pond and sell them).

So, what type of farm are you creating?

Wow @mw1525! That's a lot of farms you got going there! Impressive! How are you selling things to the "farmer's market"? How do you have a family owned fish store? Are these created with MODs?

I don't know what kind of farm I want. I've never played with these aspects before. Right now, the little family has some cows, one chicken coop and one horse. I'm learning the mechanics of managing that. The husband just became a self employed horseman so I'm learning what that's about. The wife just had twins! I think it's my first set of twins in my current play which has seven families with three generations (except the current family that I am playing until I catch up to the others). She became a self employed gardener just so she wasn't unemployed.

I've YouTubed to see how the farms work with "Grandpa's Tractor" which I don't have and think I will pass on that. It isn't what I thought it was and currently the wife is able to handle the garden that came with a farm I downloaded. To be honest, I came back to TS3 to play around with a farm because I almost purchased Farm Simulator 19 game. The concept was interesting to me but I watched two days worth of YouTubes and learned that it's not for me. I don't want to get to that level of simulation (type of trackers and other farm equipment I can't even pronounce). I remembered that TS3 had a farming aspect and thought that might scratch my itch.

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I absolutely love playing a farm! I have my sims get up at 4 to start breakfast, then send them out to work about 5am-6amish

@Rhiannon58 - Congratulations on the birth of your twins! Your Sims are about to be busy! I hope you have a blast with them every step of the way.

The type of Farmer's Market you create should depend on what you want to sell there. The market can be created with or without mods. Although, I play a modded version because it gives me more options.

To create a Non-Modded version you will need:
-The 'Humble Harvest Stands' which are a part of the 'Al Fresco Street Market' venue. This allows you to sell your home-grown produce.

-The 'Savvy Seller's Collection', which comes with the world of Midnight Hollow'. This allows you to sell any buyable object.

-The 'Baker's Bazaar Collection', allows you to sell food your Sims have made.

-'Grandma's Canning Station', allows you to create homemade jams, marmalades, relish, ketchup and preserves.

-In addition, if you have the 'Artisan's Glassblowing and Jewelry Making Station' and the 'Bohemian Fruit and Nut' set, you can expand the variety of items offered for sale.

**If you're interested in the modded version of creating a Farmer's Market, I will post back with the mods I use and how I have set things up.

My Fish Market is created by way of mods. I once read a Sim cannot sell their fish through the 'game's natural mechanics'. I have never explored that info to discover if it is true or not, I simply by-passed it and created one which uses a modded selling system in order to work.


@GraceyManor - Beautiful Farm! My Sims also have to get up at the crack of dawn to begin working the farm. Breakfast doesn't happen until all of the animals have been fed (or taken care of) and a few 'cleaning chores' have been started. It's a lot of work but it's soooooo much fun :D!

@mw1525 I love the work I have to do with it.XD
It does eat up my sim's day though!.

Beautiful farms everyone.

"mw1525;c-18015638" wrote:
-The 'Humble Harvest Stands' which are a part of the 'Al Fresco Street Market' venue. This allows you to sell your home-grown produce.

This option seems to be the most interesting for what I'm looking for. Do you know if the stand can be placed on a home property? Reading the description in the store, it appears to be. I don't want to create something where my Sims have to leave home to manage.

On a side note, I see that the stand is on sale and the sale ends "10/12/16". Obviously that is incorrect but did they just leave things in a frozen state on the store or do they actually rotate around with what's on sale?

"Rhiannon58;c-18016411" wrote:

"mw1525;c-18015638" wrote:
-The 'Humble Harvest Stands' which are a part of the 'Al Fresco Street Market' venue. This allows you to sell your home-grown produce.

This option seems to be the most interesting for what I'm looking for. Do you know if the stand can be placed on a home property? Reading the description in the store, it appears to be. I don't want to create something where my Sims have to leave home to manage.

On a side note, I see that the stand is on sale and the sale ends "10/12/16". Obviously that is incorrect but did they just leave things in a frozen state on the store or do they actually rotate around with what's on sale?

The sale page has been stuck like that. It did rotate to a new weekly sale the week after that but somehow reverted back to the 10-12-16 date and has been like that ever since. The team could never figure out way that happened, so they don't even worry about it anymore. Every once in awhile they do maintenance on the site but that's it.

@Rhiannon58 - Yes, you can set up shop on your Sim's home lot and sell your goods from there.

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Every day can be a farmer’s market when you set up the Fruit and Veggie Stand on your home or community lot!