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FarmQuest
Run a farm from soil to shelf — manage crops, raise animals, process food, market products, and balance sustainability with profitability across four seasons of scientific farming and agribusiness. Ages 9-14.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Furrow
#FFA726 FarmQuest is an agricultural science simulator where you run a farm from soil to shelf. Manage crops across four seasons, raise livestock, process food products, sell at the farmers market, and balance sustainability with profitability. Your AI Farm Advisor helps you make science-based decisions about soil health, animal care, and agricultural business.
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
Each character in FarmQuest is one part of a small family farm: healthy soil and crop rotation, caring for animals, a gentle harvest, a fair market price, and looking after the land, plus watering, natural pest control, pollination, saving seeds and preserving food. Furrow introduces each one.
Loam
Soil health + crop rotation — different roots, different seasons; soil-as-record framing
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Pen
Livestock care + animal-welfare ethics — care = consent + comfort; animals-decide-when framing
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Bushel
Harvest + post-harvest handling — gentle hands, clean baskets; bruises-cost-more framing
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Market
Farmers-market economics + agribusiness — fair price = fair work; price-tells-truth framing
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Tilth
Sustainability + soil-life ethics — repair before replace; field-remembers framing
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Runnel
Irrigation + water management
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Ladybird
Integrated pest management
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Pollen
Pollination
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Kernel
Seed saving + variety selection
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Crock
Food preservation
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What's inside
Crop Management
Test your soil, plan amendments, set up irrigation, choose cover crops, and manage pests using integrated pest management. Plan crop rotations for long-term soi
Animal Husbandry
Select livestock -- cattle, poultry, sheep, goats, or swine. Handle daily care routines, make veterinary health decisions, follow vaccination schedules, maintai
Food Processing Lab
Learn food safety protocols based on HACCP principles. Practice preservation methods -- canning, freezing, drying, and fermentation. Develop value-added product
Natural Resource Stewardship
Manage a woodlot, conserve your watershed, monitor soil health over multiple years, and maintain wildlife habitat. Balance production goals with conservation ne
Mentored by Furrow — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How FarmQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
FarmQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
FarmQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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