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Farming Challenges

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Farming Challenges

These Farming Challenges are open to all Queen's Hamlet Co-op Members. You must expend energy "caring" for your crops and you must contribute to the communal watering.

Please make an initial post indicating your farming start date. When you have reached your milestone, please reply to that post. Photos are more than welcome.

Bronze Award

You're out in the fields with the sunrise; hauling water and caring for your crops. You know the satisfaction of a good harvest and you're proud of your produce. Here's the list of requirements for the Bronze Award:

• Two continuous months of farming
• Co-op Fees have all been paid

Silver Award

** Coming Soon **

Gold Award

** Coming Soon **

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 22 Oct 2016 04:21:30AM

Farmer: Crop Growing

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That's a good question. I haven't figured out if it is a set time yet but I do know a field can go more than a day without Caring and remain at 2/2.

If the rating slips it just means that the field grows a bit slower so no real harm done. I'll post again if I find a definitive answer.

Farmer: Crop Growing

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No need to be intimidated! It's just earth, water, seeds & sun - what could go wrong?!

Tending a Community Plot

If you're interested in tending a community plot contact Tatiana to have one assign to you. Send her a full perm copy of your profile picture and your new plot will be identified something like this ...

You're going to need a source of water. Fortunately, the Queen has seen fit to gift us with a WIND WATER PUMP. Touch it to receive barrels of water (each barrel contains 10 buckets).

Rez a barrel close to the reservoir of your new plot ...

The reservoir will automatically fill from the barrel. Water needs may vary by crop but the average seems to be one bucket per 12 hours.

If your field is located in a set of four you will be sharing irrigation duties with the neighbouring farmers. There should be a communal barrel in the centre of the grouping. Please make sure to replace any that are missing.

Touch the crop for information ...

Process = % Grown - at 100 you can Harvest

Grain = blank or 1 - at 1 you can Harvest

Security = Group - everyone in the Queen's Hamlet group has access to this plot

Language = English - you may choose to set it to Spanish

Water = 6/6 - buckets of water currently in the reservoir

Care = 2/2 - more about that in a moment

FLOATING TEXT = OFF - Sometimes floating text is a necessary evil in SL but in this case we really don't need it turned on.

Use your HUD to Care for the Field ...

This action takes Energy and the higher your energy level the more chance you have of success. Yes, you can fail at this (it depends on an automated dice roll).

Touch the little orange triangle on the right of the HUD to get the menu. Select "Caring Field" (second page). Cross your fingers

Well tended fields grow faster so keep an eye on them.

When the field is fully grown HARVEST (haven't reached that point yet so no pictures). You can also check out G&S Information for specifics about each type of crop.

Enjoy the fruits of your labours!

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 06 Nov 2018 09:57:48AM

Farmer: Chicken Coop Co-op

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I've learned a bit more about raising chickens that I thought I'd share with you.

One chicken is born every two days and a coop can hold a maximum of 5 chickens (or volus in G&S speak). Apparently eggs are not produced until all 5 chickens are in the coop so it's a bit of an investment waiting the 10 days before your first egg appears.

Having worked this out, I decided to add another coop that could be used for meat.

Now I've been a tad stressed about having to kill the chickens (I'd make an absolutely horrible RL farmer even though I do eat meat) so I was happy to find out that to sell a chicken you don't actually have to kill it, just put it in a vendor. I guess the killing is up to the person that decides to roast it

Two days later, the first chicken is born and I remove him from the coop only to find he's of the "Large" variety which are rare. Seems a shame to stuff our very first large chicken into a box and sell him, so I've named him Rusty (after Rusty the Rooster for us oldbies that know about The Friendly Giant ) and he now lives behind the Winery with the rest of our livestock.

Still waiting for that first egg (any day now!) and we'll see in two days how I do with the next chicken from the "meat" coop.

Farmer: Chicken Coop Co-op

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Poultry products are a perfect change-of-pace to our current all-fish diet! Here's how you can join the Chicken Raising Challenge.

Now that we're harvesting grain we can take the next exciting step up the food-chain. The Co-op has purchased one Mini Coop and has made space available for others that are privately owned.

It's important to note that each Chicken Coop needs one bag of grain every six days, i.e. the total production of one wheat field (approximately one sack every 5 days) goes to support a coop.

This presents a challenge to all Co-op farmers as they have each been allotted a single wheat field and must pay Co-op Fees with part of their harvests. When we have more money in circulation the purchase of extra grain via the Grain Merchant will be more viable but for now we need to come up with alternatives.

I would suggest coop owners work together with one or more fellow farmers to support one coop. It will be up to the individual coop owners to work out arrangements.

Another scenario might include stockpiling grain before you start so that you have enough to tide you over until the sales of your poultry products generate revenue. Coops do not necessarily have to run continually. If you run out of feed, you may want to convert the chickens to meat and return the coop to your inventory until you can make another go of it.

There are currently two spaces set aside for privately owned coops. They are located behind the new Winery . Contact Tatiana to have one assigned to you.

And speaking of Co-op Fees, I'm sure everyone will be pleased to know that they will NOT apply to poultry products (eggs & meat). Everything produced is yours to keep. I'm dreaming of omelettes right now!

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 22 Oct 2016 04:18:48AM

Culinary Challenges

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Culinary Champions

BRONZE:

• Claire-Sophie de Rocoulle
• Lady Hartfield
• Hatsuka
• Tatiana Dokuchic
• Una Lunaqat
• Jane Ixtar

SILVER:

GOLD:

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Wow!! WTG!! Bronze it is )

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Yummmm ... congratulations on the Bronze Baking )

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Excellent! Congratulations

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Took me long enough!