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 every two days 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 and 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!"

If you receive the Mystery Seedling through harvesting your orchard, these can grow into any type of tree in your Orchard. If you receive the Mystery Seedling through the game feed, these can grow into any level II tree. Mystery Seedlings must be planted and watered 10 times before they mature into fully grown level II trees.

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. Empty completed orchards sell for. 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 )

Some limited edition trees can be placed in the orchards from 17th November 2010. Currently Persimmon and Carnival trees are still excluded.

A handful of trees that are not available in the market can be placed in Orchards, but only show up on the Tree Mastery board if you have them. This list changes as more trees become available in the market but currently they are: the Mandarin Tree which act like the Orange Tree, the Heirloom Apple Tree which act like the Apple Tree, and the Lychee Tree which has a unique level II tree the Longan Tree.

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.

As of November 12, 2010, farmers can use the Biplane to instantly grow their trees.

On January 6, 2011, a glitch was found that when a holiday tree was placed into an Orchard, it became giant.