The Farm

North of town is your farm. Pick an open spot and start tilling.

Pocket Country runs on the real calendar. When it's October for you, it's fall on your farm. Here's one plot through a whole year.

Spring, with the cherry trees in bloom.

For the first two weeks of April, the cherry trees bloom and petals blow across the farm. Spring is the season for root crops. And! On rainy days, the rain does your watering for you.

Summer. The tomatoes are coming in.

Pick a ripe tomato plant and it grows another batch three days later. The darker soil has been watered. Crops only grow on days they get water, and if you miss a day, they just wait for you.

Fall. Even the grass changes color.

As the nights get colder, the grass shifts a little every couple of weeks. I really took inspiration from the grass colors in the original Animal Crossing game on GameCube. The purple grass around Thanksgiving in that game specifically is like a core childhood memory, so I've tried my best to replicate that feeling here.

And winter, when the field gets a rest.

Snow covers the ground from December 10 until late February. Crops that can't take the cold wither on the first day of winter. Those dry stalks used to be eggplants and sunflowers.

Next week, a look inside your home.

That's all for now. Thanks for letting me borrow your time!

-Karter