FarmVille’s official Podcast is hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Lexilicious. You can listen to the video above, read our FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

The next podcast is scheduled for March 18th 2011.

FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary

FarmVille Contests
If you have an idea for a FarmVille Contest, submit your ideas at the official FarmVille Forums under the Suggestions area.

St. Patrick’s Day & Pot of Gold Event

• Now available to all farmers.
• Put your collected gold into pot to redeem for special St. Patrick’s Day prizes.
• First time you play FarmVille after the update it’s free.
• Works similar to other item gathering events.
• You can get gold by harvesting yours or your neighbors’ Leprechaun Cottages, purchase directly with Farm Cash, from shares on your Facebook News Feed, free gifts from neighbors, and gift requests.
• Can compete with neighbors to see who has collected the most gold.
• There will NOT be a second page of redeemable prizes.

Coming Soon to FarmVille

English Countryside

• Will be a 2nd farm with access to new crops and new activities.
• Stay tuned to FarmVille English Countryside’s Facebook Fan Page for more sneak peaks.

Spring Garden

• Constructed with neighbor help.
• Decoration that looks great on your farm, but will also have purpose.
• Can be harvested for eggs or flowers that you will be able to redeem for special prizes.
• New Mardi Gras theme is coming that will feature both new and old items from last year.

What was your favorite piece of news from this week’s podcast?

FarmVille 28 x 28 Farm Estate

Woo woo! Finally, farmers can expand their farms for Farm Coins with the latest FarmVille 28×28 “Farm Estate” land expansion. We have been teased since December with the market placeholder for the Farm Coin option locked and with a TBD (To Be Determined) price.

According to statements made by Zygna in past FarmVille podcasts, the expansion’s delay was caused by a new feature that has yet to be released. After deciding that farmers had waited long enough, they put plans on hold and continued with the 28×28 expansion’s Farm Coin release.

You can purchase your 28×28 expansion in the FarmVille Market for 4 Million Farm Coins. In addition to the the Farm Coins, you will also have to fulfill a neighbor requirement. First, you need to have a minimum of 45 neighbors.This expansion also requires that you add 10 new neighbors, that is additional neighbors from what you already have. Please note, you need to add any 10 neighbors of your choice. These players do NOT have to be new to FarmVille or first-time players. Remember, that if you purchase the expansion directly with Farm Cash for 120 FV$, there are no neighbor restrictions in place so you will not have to add additional neighbors.

FarmVille Farm Estate For Coins

If you are purchasing the expansion today and will be redecorating your farm to utilize those extra plots, remember to save your farm frequently to make sure that your progress is saved! There is nothing more frustrating when you have been redecorating for an hour to start back at square one due to an OOS error! Don’t forget to send pics of your all your hard work to farmgoddess@farmvillefreak.com and we may feature your farm on FarmVille Freak.

Will you upgrade your farm to the 28×28 Farm Estate expansion?  Don’t forget to take our FarmVille Freak Poll below!

FarmVille Unreleased Visit England Sign

We’ve heard the rumors that FarmVille would be having an English invasion soon and now FarmVille Freaks are reporting that they must be true as they have started seeing billboard notices for the FarmVille England expansion on their farms!

We first heard mention of a possible English expansion through a hint on the official FarmVille podcast.

From what the FarmVille notification states, visiting England will offer farmers, “a whole new way to play your favorite game”. Perhaps, another farm in the English countryside?

If you’re not into advertising free billboards on your farm that may be an eyesore for your farming paradise, don’t worry, it can be deleted.

FarmVille England Expansion Notice

What do you think about this? Are you excited to visit England in FarmVille?

FarmVille Freak Eva16's Visit England Sign

This week’s official FarmVille Podcast is out and hosted by FarmVille Community Manager, Grimwell. Lexilicious will return to host the podcast on February 18th.

Also, making its way to FarmVille tonight is the FarmVille Greenhouse which was released tonight along with lots of new crops for you to work on! This major new feature will slowly be rolling out for farmers so you may not have access to it yet.

You can listen to the podcast video below or read our FarmVille Freak Summary and find the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

FarmVille Freak Podcast Summary

FarmVille Greenhouse (previously called the Glass House in prior Podcast) is released tonight.

• 3 Phase buildable building.
• Used to create up to 10 new crops.
• The Greenhouse (decorative building) has been renamed to Glass House.

For more details about the Greenhouse click here.

Coming Soon to FarmVille

The Farm Coin option 28×28 Expansion is coming next week! We learn that this expansion’s delay was because it was going to be part of a new feature. This idea was put on hold and expansion will be released as normal.

Orchards will produce Watering Cans. In the future when you do not receive a Mystery Seedling from harvesting your Orchard, you will receive 2 Watering Cans and an additional can that can be shared with up to 10 of your FarmVille neighbors via the Facebook news feed.

(Reminder, Snowmen will have the ability to produce Watering Cans for the next 3 weeks only.)

New special crops will be introduced that will award extra XP and more Farm Coins than normal crops!

The next FarmVille Podcast is December 17th 2010.

You can listen to the video below, read the FarmVille Freak summary, or read the entire transcript provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

• Winners received 1,000 Farm Cash and 1 million coins.

FarmVille Winter Workshop

• Winter Workshop constructible building released.
• Winter Workshop will soon be able to harvest special Holiday Gifts that you can use later for redemption.
• For now just prepare by getting your Winter Workshop built.
• The Winter Workshop base is free upon playing FarmVille. You can place it on  your farm immediately or store it in your Gift Box for later use.
• Only one Winter Workshop per farm.
• If you sell your Winter Workshop, you can purchase a new one in the market for 5,000 coins.
• Winter Workshop is unlocked at Level 5.
• Winter Workshop needs to be leveled by using construction materials.
• Construction materials can be sent via the free gifts page, purchased directly with Farm Cash, found in Special Delivery boxes, or from neighbor requests.
• Harvesting for Holiday Gifts will be coming soon!

FarmVille Winter Wonderland Quest

• New quest feature released to FarmVille for the first time as the Winter Wonderland Quest.
• Slowly rolling out so not every farmer has access to quests at the moment.
• Winter Wonderland Quest is a mission to make your farm into a winter wonderland and earn some exclusive prizes, XP, and coins.
• Once you complete goals from the quest, the goal will be checked off with a green check mark.
• When you complete an objective the prize will automatically go to your FarmVille Gift Box.
• When you receive a prize you can share the same prize with your neighbors by posting a Facebook news feed.

COMING SOON to FarmVilleHoliday Tree 2010

• The FarmVille Holiday Tree will be coming back!
• Holiday Tree will be updated slightly.
• Collect holiday gifts from neighbors and place them in your tree. As you accumulate more gifts, your tree grows and changes appearance.
• Throughout your gift collection  you will be able to trade in gifts and redeem exclusive prizes similar to other past collection events.
• When you redeem a special prize, you will be able to gift the same prize to a neighbor. As a new change you will be able to select which FarmVille neighbor you send the prize to.
• A special present from Zynga is also likely for those players.

FarmVille Snowman feature

• Players will be able to have snowball fights by visiting friends’ farms or joining other friends snowball fights.
• As you throw snowballs, you will eventually end up with a big pile of snow.
• The pile of snow can be used to build a Snowman.
• The Snowman may even dance for you if you find the right item for it!

Next FarmVille Podcast is December 17th 2010
What was your favorite news from today’s podcast? Are you excited about Snow fights in FarmVille and building your own Snowman?

FarmVille Podcast – Dec 6th:

Hey Farmers and welcome to this week’s installment of the official FarmVille podcast. My name is Lexilicious, and I am here to bring you all of the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week, we will be discussing our latest releases, and you guys will all be getting sneak peek of things coming to FarmVille in the near future.

Now, before we get into discussing all of our newest features, I would like to give a quick thank you to all of the players who participated in the FarmVille Dessert Contest. We challenged everyone to bring FarmVille to life with ovens, flour and just a sprinkle of creativity. Well Farmers, you rose to the challenge like true baking champions. The cooks in our Dessert Contest whipped up some of the most creative and edible works of art we’ve ever seen. Choosing the winners of this contest was no easy task, but after much deliberation, the FarmVille Team decided upon the most creative, delicious and well presented FarmVille desserts. If you would like to check out our winning entries, please visit the official Farmville forums and congratulations again to our winners who will be walking away with 1000 Farm Cash and 1,000,000 Coins. Remember Farmers, these contests are a great way to showcase your talent and earn some extra farm cash, so make sure to enter next time for your chance to win big.

So the past couple of weeks for FarmVille have been absolutely packed with new features. From great new Winter Holiday themed items to brand new features, FarmVille has been going all out to celebrate the holidays this year.
First up was the release of the Winter Workshop. This new constructable building is the first major step to our FarmVille holiday season and soon enough you’ll be able to harvest special Holiday Gifts from the Winter Workshop for special use later. But first, however, just worry about getting them built as much as you can.

You’ll get the base for the Winter Workshop for free the first time you play FarmVille, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Winter Workshop base on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later.

You’ll only be able to have one Winter Workshop at a time. If you sell yours and want another, you can find it in the Market for 5,000 coins. You’ll need to be level 5 in order to place and use the Winter Workshop.

Now, the basic Winter Workshop looks pretty but you’ll need to level it first before you can start using it to collect Holiday Gifts. To level your workshop, you will need to collect parts like our other constructible buildings. You can acquire these parts via the free gifts page, farm cash, special delivery boxes and neighbor requests.

Harvesting for Holiday Gifts will begin soon, so make sure to finish constructing those workshops soon.

Our other big feature this week was the release of quests. Now, this feature is currently only available to a randomly selected group of users, but I want to give everyone a quick explanation of how this release works so users who do have it understand the benefits, and players who don’t can be better prepared once it arrives.

Coupled together with the introduction of the Winter Workshop, the Winter Wonderland Quest is a mission to make your farm into a beautiful wonderland and earn some cool gifts along the way. To get started, click the quest icon located at the lower left-hand side of the game.

Clicking on this icon will bring up the quest window, which will display your current quest, your quest progress and objectives. Your first quest objectives are to Place a Winter Workshop on your farm and buy one Candy Arch from the Market.

You’ll see a green checkmark by the objectives you’ve already finished. Once you complete these objectives, you will be awarded a prize. The prizes will automatically be awarded to you and you’ll return to your farm. You also have the option to Share the special gift with your friends by making a post to your feed.

A new icon will show up if there is another quest to complete. Your next quest’s objectives are to change your landscape to the snow blanket, place 4 parts in your workshop and acquire holiday lights from your Neighbors. Once you complete this quest, you will receive a special reward. Now, the rest of the Winter Wonderland Quests are all similar in structure to the ones I’ve just explained. Now, I don’t want to give away all of the surprises, so get out there and start questing today. If you are in need of any additional information about this feature, or you have feedback that you would like to share with us, please make sure to visit the “Game Updates” section of the Official FarmVille forums.

Alright! So this week’s coming soon segment will actually give you guys a little bit more insight into a feature I know everyone has been waiting for. This year’s holiday tree will be making an appearance in FarmVille soon, but it works a little bit differently this year.

You will need to collect holiday gifts from your Neighbors and place them into your tree. As you add more gifts, the tree will grow and change in appearance. As you collect gifts, you will be able to redeem your gifts for special prizes along the way as you unlock them. Similar to how the Haunted House could be used to collect Candy, the Winter Workshop will become harvestable for holiday gifts once the tree is released.

Keeping with the holiday spirit, when you redeem a special prize, instead of sharing an extra one via your feed as per usual, we’re going to let you pick which friends you would like to send it to as a present. Players who participate in this feature may also see a special present from Zynga this year, so make sure to keep an eye out for this release in the near future.
And lastly, we have the new snowman feature coming to farmville in the coming weeks. Players will be able to have snowball fights with their friends by visiting their farms or joining in on other friends snowball fights. With all of that snow being thrown, you will eventually end up with a big pile of it. You can use this pile of snow to build a Snowman, that may even dance for you if you can find the right item for it.

Alright folks, that’s it from me this week. Again, my name is Lexilicious and I will be back on December 17th to bring you all of the latest news from around the Farm. Happy Farming everybody!

The next FarmVille Podcast is scheduled for Monday, September 25th 2010.

“Hey Farmers!

As the FarmVille Community Team has spent all day in our Player Luncheon, we will be unable release the Podcast today.However, we will make sure to release the podcast on Monday (September 27th). We sincerely apologize for the delay! (And a big thank you to all the players who attended our luncheon today!)

Happy Farming!”

However, FarmVillle announced via the official FarmVille Forum that the FarmVille Podcast will now take place biweekly.This seems like a good move on Zynga’s part considering that even though previously the Podcasts were once a week, they were often post-poned or rescheduled.

The decision to move to a bi-weekly basis was made to improve the quality of the information featured in the Podcast.

The next official FarmVille Podcast is scheduled for

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

“Hi Farmers!
The FarmVille Podcasts will now be posted on a Bi-Weekly basis, as opposed to weekly. This decision has been made to improve the quality of the information we are able to provide. Due to this change, the next podcast will be posted on September 10th, 2010. Thank you for your understanding!”

(Source: FarmVille Forum)

Friday’s FarmVille Podcast was rescheduled until today, and has been delayed again until further notice.

Hi Farmers,

Unfortunately, there will be no FarmVille Podcast today. Due to unforeseen circumstances we will have to delay until next week. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes listeners and thank you for your understanding.

Source: Official FarmVille Forums- Lexilicious

Maybe the should call it the Bi-Weekly Podcast rather than canceling it half the time.

FarmVille July 16th 2010 Podcast Cancelled

What do you think would have been included if there had been a FarmVille Podcast this week?

The Official FarmVille Podcast for this week is on time as scheduled and Lexilicious is this week’s host. You may listen to the Podcast in the video above, read the exclusive FarmVille Freak Summary, or read the entire transcript, provided by Zynga at the bottom of the post.

This was an exciting Podcast that actually had informative information about anticipated features. Most notable, increased storage and more details on the Farmer’s Market!

Official FarmVille Freak Summary

Horse Stable Expansion

• Horses provide foals and consumables (Arborists and Farmhands)
• Horse Stable can be expanded 4 times. Each expansion will need 10 each of building supplies.
• Horse Stable maximum capacity is 40 Horses.
• You may receive the building materials for free from neighbors or purchase for farm cash directly.
• Completed Horse Stables offer a Gray Horse to share with your neighbors via FaceBook newsfeed.

Limited Edition Tuscan Theme

• Tuscan themed debuted this week in FarmVille and offers Italian inspired limited edition decorations and buildings.
• There is a Tuscan landscape available for 1,000 coins.

New Mystery Box

• 16 FV$
• exclusive prizes (see spoilers here provided by FarmVille Freak)

New Permanent Crops

• Basil
• Cucumber
• Crop Mastery is available for both crops.

Blue Heeler Puppy

• New breed of Dog introduced.
• Available in Gray, Black and Brown colors
• Farm Cash only, costs 65 FV$ and comes with 14 day supply of Kibble.

Free Mystery Gifts Updated

• The FREE Mystery Gifts that are giftable have been updated to include new prizes.
• Chinchilla and others!

FarmVille Game Bar

• Installing the FarmVille Game Bar will give you free 25 FV$.
• Only works with Firefox browser at this time.
• Upon entering your farm you will be offered to install or try out the Game Bar.
• If you already have the Game Bar you can still receive the free 25 FV$, you may need to refresh.
• Free farm cash can be found in your Gift Box.

User Submitted Questions

• Q: What is the real concept of the nursery barn, besides storage for baby animals?
• A: FarmVille will eventually upgrade the Nursery Barn to let animals grow up and share with their friends.
• Q: Why are we not able to add lambs to the nursery barns? It’s my understanding that lambs are baby sheep. If we can place baby foals and baby calves, we should be able to place lambs in the nursery barns.
• A: Baby lambs were limited edition items.
• Q: Does the development team actively take feedback from the forums, or are the forums just here for us to discuss?
• A: The FV forums are frequently used to gather feedback and requests from users.

COMING SOON

Farmer’s Market

• At Level 15 you can find Bushels of Crops to harvest your fields.
• Finding a bushel will activate a Market Stall that will allow you to sell to your friends.
• You can earn rewards from each friend that shops at your stall.
• The Bushels can be consumed directly to get a license to plant that crop, earn more mastery or earn bonus XP from that crop.

Underground Storage

• Underground storage will be coming soon and will be available through coins or farm cash as Cellars!
• You can store up to 200 items in the same size area (footprint) of a plot of Tulips.
• You will start out with a smaller number of slots and will need your friends to help grow crops for them.
• These crops will give you energy to dig underground and increase the size of your cellars.
• You will be allowed a maximum of 2 Cellars.
• Having 2 Cellars will mean that you have a storage capacity of 400 items for your combined Cellars! All in the space of 2 plots.

You may read the official transcript for this podcast, provided by Zynga’s FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious below.

What do you think about this Podcast?

“FarmVille Podcast – May 21st:

Hey Farmers, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Official FarmVille Podcast! My name is Lexilicious and I am here to bring you all of the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week, we will be discussing our latest releases, you guys will all be getting a sneak peek of things coming to FarmVille in the future, and we have a very special guest with us today to answer some questions from the FarmVille community!

Well it was business as usual this week with the release of our new Limited Edition Tuscan theme and some exciting new features.

Probably the most notable feature that has been released recently is the new Horse Stable Expansion. Now, I have seen a little bit of confusion from players as to how this new update works, so I am going to go ahead and quickly discuss this feature in a little bit more detail for any users who may not be familiar with it.

Now as I am sure most of you know, Horse Stables provide you with both foals and consumables that can be used around your farm. The new Horse Stable expansion means you can now hold more horses in your stable. On top of the extra room on your farm, having more horses will increase your chances of finding Arborists, Farm Hands, and foals.

Your Horse stable can be expanded a total of 4 times. Each expansion will increase your stable capacity by 5 horses, for a total capacity of 40.
Each time you wish to expand, you will need 10 Wooden Boards, Nails, Bricks, Horseshoes and Harnesses.

To start the expansion, open your Horse Stable and click on the “expand” button. This will give you a pop-up which will allow you to post a feed to your wall informing your friends and Neighbors that you need materials to start expanding. When clicked, this will take your neighbor to the Free Gifts page where they can send you building materials for your expansion.

When clicking “look inside” from your Horse Stables menu, you will now see a new “expand” button at the top of your Horse Stable information page. Clicking on the “expand” button will show you what you need to complete your Horse Stable expansion.

As I said earlier, each time you wish to expand your Horse Stable, you’ll need 10 of each item. You can get these items one of three ways. Firstly, your Neighbors can send you the necessary components via the free gifts page. Alternatively, when viewing the interior of your unfinished Horse Stable expansion, each component that you have not yet received 10 of has an ‘Ask For More’ button, that when clicked will take you to the Friend Selector page where you can select friends to send Gift Requests to for your chosen component.

And lastly, the items required for expansion can be purchased for 1 Farm Cash apiece from the Market. When you complete your expansion, you will receive a popup asking you if you’d like to share the news with your friends. Clicking the Share button on this popup will give you the option to post a feed to your wall that will give up to five neighbors who click on it a free Grey Horse.

On Thursday, we released our first round of Limited Edition Tuscan items which is complimented beautifully by the new Tuscan Green landscape that was just released yesterday. A new Mystery Box is also available in the Market for 16 Farm Cash, along with the new Cucumber and Basil crops.
And as per the communities request, we have adjusted the contents of our Free Mystery Gifts which now feature some never before released items, like the new chinchilla, and we have released another new breed of puppy for your enjoyment. The Blue Heeler puppy can now be purchased from the Market for 65 Farm Cash.

And lastly, we have a new offer that is now live to all of our players that I am sure you guys will all love. As a thank you to for giving the FarmVille Game Bar a try, we’re giving out a special gift! Now when you install the FarmVille Game Bar, you’ll be able to receive 25 Farm Cash! If you don’t already have the Game Bar installed, you’ll see a page prompting you to install it the next time you log-in.

Clicking the Install button will take you to a page with instructions on how to add the Game Bar to your browser. Unfortunately, the Game Bar only works with Firefox at this time.

Once you have the Game Bar installed, the next time that you enter FarmVille and have the Game Bar turned on, you’ll receive a message letting you know that your Farm Cash is in your Gift Box.

The 25 Farm Cash in your Gift Box can be redeemed simply by clicking the Use button.

If you already have the Game Bar installed in your browser, you’ll also see the same page I mentioned earlier if you have not already received your free prize. You do not need to install the Game Bar again. Simply click Skip or the Play button from the navigation bar at the top of the FarmVille screen.

Once you turn on or refresh the Game Bar, you’ll receive a message letting you know that your Farm Cash is waiting for you in your in your Gift Box.
Alright! And that’s about it for new releases this week! On that note, let’s go ahead and get into answering some questions submitted by members of the FarmVille Community! Today, we have a special guest with us who has graciously taken time out of her busy day to sit down and answer some questions from the community.

Our first question comes to us from SilverBaller. “What is the real concept of the nursery barn, besides storage for baby animals?”

Well, Here is what one of our Designers, Heather, had to say about this question.

Now, Our second question comes to us from ladycoffey. “Why are we not able to add lambs to the nursery barns? It’s my understanding that lambs are baby sheep. If we can place baby foals and baby calves, we should be able to place lambs in the nursery barns.”

Alright, awesome. I want to give a big thank you to Heather for taking time out of her busy schedule to sit down and talk with us today. And going forward, we will be doing our best to get other members of the FarmVille team to sit down with us to discuss new features and answer questions from the community.

Alright and finally, our last question comes to us form bubba87. “Does the development team actively take feedback from the forums, or are the forums just here for us to discuss?” The FarmVille forums are frequently used by many members of the FarmVille team as a way to gather feedback and opinions from our users. While we may not be able to implement every request, our development team absolutely takes the time to gather feedback from players so that they can keep community concerns and requests in mind when developing new features.

So for this week’s coming soon segment, I actually have some information for you guys on the Farmers Market feature we have been teasing for the past few weeks.

At level 15, you’ll get the chance to find bushels of crops when you harvest your fields. Finding a bushel activates a Market Stall. Your friends can shop at your market stall and take some of the bushels and you earn rewards from each friend who shops at your stall. The bushels will be used in an upcoming feature and can also be consumed directly to get a license to plant that crop, earn more mastery from that crop or earn bonus exp from that crop for a short time.

In addition to this, we have the new underground storage feature coming soon. Coin and Cash cellars will soon be available that will allow you to store up to 200 items in the same size area as a plot of tulips! Players start out with a smaller number of slots and can get their friends to grow crops for them. These crops will give you energy to dig underground and increase the area of your cellars. You can have a maximum of two cellars. That means if you buy and max out two cellars, you’ll be able to have 400 slots of storage in the space of TWO tulip plots!

Now, before I get out of here, I just want to let you guys know that due to popular demand, we will be bringing back the “tip of the week” segment of the podcast starting next week. And on that note, Im out of here folks. Again, my name is Lexilicious and I want to thank you all for listening. I will see you next Friday with all of the latest news and Information from around the Farm. Happy Farming everybody!” (Source: Official FarmVille Forum)