townforge/GameData/TB/encyclopedia/Farming
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Farming in one of the ways one can obtain food in Townforge.
Farming requires an [agricultural](Agricultural) building, and is done by sowing and harvesting either [vegetables](Vegetables) or [grain](Grain).
Sowing and harvesting can only done at the right time of year. See the [farming calendar](Farming calendar) for details.
Every agricultural building has a given level of nutrients for both crops. Growing vegetables depletes vegetables nutrients, while growing grain
depletes grain nutrients. The longer a crop is left to grow, the more nutrients levels for that crop will deplete.
In a year where no grain is grown, vegetables nutrients recover yearly, and vice versa. If nothing is grown in a given year,
both nutrients levels recover.
The higher the nutrients levels for a crop are, the more bountiful the crop will be.
Nutrients may not recover in a city under the influence of a bad soil conditions special event.
Temperature has a direct influence on crop growth: crops will only grow if the temperature is over a threshold, and will receive frost damage
if it goes below another threshold. Remember than geothermal heating, altitude and southernly orientation have an effect an the temperature
in a given place.
Crops will grow fastest after sowing, and slower as time passes. The current state of an agricultural building's crop can always be seen in
the harvest screen.
See the [farming calendar](Farming calendar) for details.