Some Inspiration to Make Your Farm Pretty Without Getting Broke

Hi farmers! As you may know, we are currently running the first Prettiest Farm Contest in Family Farm, in which you can win 50 RC! (Check the details here.) Here are a few hints about how you can get creative and make your farm pretty, while staying within a reasonable budget. Hope you find this useful!

Hint 1: Use Decorations That Cost Only Coins

The Store in Family Farm has a lot to offer, even when you don't want to spend RC. You can decorate your farm with nice looking walking paths and peaceful ponds. You can use the ponds to create waterways that run all through your farm. Ducks and geese too, are available for just coins. Decorations like the Wooden Barrel and the Woodpile may hardly seem worth while, but they can give your farm a real country side touch.

This player from the Netherlands used only decorations for coins. His farm looks quite Zen - in a Dutch, countryside way of course.

Hint 2: Create an Elevation Effect

You don't need to purchase stairways or mountains to create the idea of elevation in your farm. You can position your land plots (with or without crops on them) in such a way that they create the illusion of hills on your farm. You can also use Hay for this, but this is more expensive (3 RC per Hay).

A German farmer created a farm full of hill slopes, only by smartly positioning her plots.

Hint 3: Unleash the Artist In You by Using Crop Art

Of course, you can arrange your crops in rows. But have you tried to take this a step further? If your farm is large enough, you can create letters to form a small text on your farm. Or even create a complete painting, like this farmer from Italy has done:

An Italian farmer created a beautiful image of a butteryfly, just by planting crops.

Hint 4: Concentrate on a Small Area

If you don't have a large farm, it's a good idea to concentrate on a smaller area and make that as pretty as you can. This way, you don't have to buy many items, so it is easier to stay within a budget. If you go about it this way, you have as much chance as anyone else to win the 50 RC. We only look at what we can see in the picture. (If you don't know how to send us a picture of just an area of your farm, you can tell us in your mail which area you want us to look at, and which areas not.)

Palm trees, greenhouses, gees and flowers create the idea of a sunny day in a warm climate's place.

Hint 5: Creative With Trees

We weren't even aware of this ourselves, until a farmer did it. You can position trees in such a way that it forms a shape that seems to detach itself from the farm. The heart-like shape in the farm below seems to almost float above the ranch.

This player used the expensive Chocolate Tree, but you can also opt for cheaper trees.

Hint 6: Creative With Decorations

Decorations too, may serve as objects of creativity. What do you think of this: a farmer used a lot of Stone Mailboxes - available for coins! - to erect a wall. A good-looking wall at that. Who would have thought?

It looks like a wall. But if you look carefully, you'll see that it's really a bunch of Stone Mailboxes!

We hope these hints will inspire you for the Prettiest Farm Contest!

Participating in the contest is very easy. All you have to do is create a pretty farm, make a screenshot, and mail it to us. Do it, it can get you 50 RC totally for free!!
Read all the details about the contest here.