Orchard

 is a building in FarmVille and was officially released on November 05, 2010.

From the 10/23/2010 podcast transcript... "Orchards will be a constructed building. You’ll be able to place up to 20 trees in each Orchard, and you can have more than one. The appearance of each Orchard will depend on the trees you put inside it! You will be able to harvest Orchards once a day for coins with a chance to receive a Mystery Seed. These can grow into any type of tree in your Orchard, and must be planted on watered before they mature into fully grown, upgraded versions of their parent trees! Enhanced trees will be a part of the Tree Mastery system. You will be able to progress as you harvest Orchards or individual trees, and there will be three levels of mastery with rewards for each level of mastery completion. Level 3 mastery will also grant a unique mastery sign!"

You can place multiple orchards on your farm but you can only construct one at a time. Once you have fully constructed an orchard, you can buy another base from the market for 1,000 coins. Orchards require 30 building materials to complete - 10 each of nails, bricks and wooden boards. You can also buy a fully constructed orchard from the market (for 30 FV cash)

Some limited edition trees cannot be placed in the orchards (Carnival Tree, Cottoncandy Tree, Ornament Tree I, Ornament Tree II, Persimmon Tree,) possibly because the second level tree has not been released/created yet.

A handful of trees can be placed in Orchards, but only show up on the Tree Mastery board if you have them. These are the Mandarin Tree, the Heirloom Apple Tree, the Lychee Tree, the Coconut Tree and the Asian Pear Tree. The first two act like Orange Trees and Apple Trees respectively, but the latter three have unique mystery seed trees. These are the Longan Tree, Golden Malayan Coconut Tree, and the Shinko Pear Tree, respectively.

The Orchard can be harvested every 48 hours, regardless of what types of trees are put inside. This makes it an excellent place to put your longer-growing trees, such as Lime, Passion Fruit, or Pomegranate trees (all of these having a 5-day harvest). The Orchard can also be used to speed up mastery of any tree with a harvest longer than 2 days.