Discussion: What is a Farm?

Reindeer farm?

I guess farming to me is a corn field, pumpkin field, plant other fruits and vegetables. Also have cows and bulls, horses, goats and sheep. Chickens and Roosters. duck and geeese. Pigs and Hogs.

Yeah, typically when I think of a farm I think of a house surrounded by acres of wheat, corn, etc., and a barn with horses, cows, pigs, chickens, and maybe some dogs and-or cats.

@Briana2425: What's the difference between a pig and a hog?

"SimQueenie9;c-17134793" wrote:
Yeah, typically when I think of a farm I think of a house surrounded by acres of wheat, corn, etc., and a barn with horses, cows, pigs, chickens, and maybe some dogs and-or cats.

@Briana2425: What's the difference between a pig and a hog?

I think a hog is bigger than a pig.

I wanna have a variety of farms, and a rural world where there are different kinds of farms

• Livestock farm
  
• Crop farm
  
• Nectar (Wine) making farm (Vineyard)
  
• Horse ranch
  

Also there should be a mixture of these kinds of farms, like a farm that specializes in growing crops and nectar making, but also has some chickens and cows.
You can mix and match, even a giant farm with all these features: farm animals, crops, nectar making and horses!

Actually I didn't think about urban farming!

I'll be amazed if farming is done in a more modern method, like the rack where you can plant crops on each levels, or even a rooftop plantation. It gives a whole new meaning of eco-living.

I think for me ''Farm'' and ''Stable'' are 2 different places so I don't really list horses into farming pack

Farm for me includes:

- Large fields of harvestables
but also small ones for more hobby farmers
maybe some machine to help with that or ability to hire farmhands

- Farm animals like cows , sheep , chickens... maybe even llamas

main reason to have animals should be to get usable things like
eggs, milk, wool, meat.. (ok maybe meat aint ts4 style)
since at farm animals are not just there to be petted they are there to make living
but also it would be nice to be able to make friends with them and name them because fav cow is fav cow

there should be aspect of cleaning after your livestock. mending fences and making sure they don't get sick or injured
and obviously you'd have to feed them :joy:

also I feel following subjects tie in with farming and would be great addition

- Canning /Preserving food
- Making nectar
- Making butter
- or hey they could also make cheese or something
- Maybe knitting or something to use the wool you get

new venue type or festival to bring farmers market where sims could sell things they made or farmed and buy livestock

what comes to urban style I am not that big fan
but also it would be nice to have few planters and such that allow more modern style of doing it for city sims

Why can‘t a farm and a stable be in the same world? A Farming expansion/ country living should definitely include horses, I can‘t see them in another pack.

Hydroponics is the latest fashionable type of farming which you can do on a very small plot. I saw one on TV today which uses fish tanks as a basis for irrigating plants, veg. and fruit. Same water re-circulating all the time. The sort of thing that Maxis could use if we get a world in space pack!

For my characters, the Farm is a family Business. The Bourbons, are a wealthy (Irish) family, Their layout would take up an Entire World.

One: 64x64 Lot, Their Family Estate that overlooks the entire farm on a hillside.
Three: 50x50 Lots, that house the Live Stock: Barns and Stables. They do raise livestock, Cows, Pigs, and Chickens.
Six: 40x30 Lots, 1 = The Wheat Field (Wheat Maze), 2 = Vineyards, 3 = Orchards, 4 = Flower Fields, 5 = Herbs 6 = Vegetables.

In this pack i wouldn't want anything pre grown. I know I can delete lots, but I want to be the one to sow the first seed.
If it came down to what I was looking for In this packs game play wise:

- Raising Bulls/Cows, Hogs/Pigs, Roosters/Chickens because I think they're cute.

- Using resources from My Vineyard and Orchard to supply my Winery and Brewery. Using large Quantities of Grapes to create a bottle of wine.

- Being able to craft custom bottles of wine and beer, storing them in a cellar in Barrel/kegs, under my sims mansion let them age, tasting them, naming the crafts. then shipping them out to stores, and restaurants to then be sold.

I'd like the mechanical/industrial side of Crafting Wine and beer, as well as the manual.

- The Bourbons would host Harvest Festivals, with neat contests, like Bake-offs, Pie-Eating Contests, The Largest Pumpkin, Music, and Wandering the Wheat/Corn Maze