Country Life is a popular Facebook farming game developed by Country Life and has been gaining ground on Farmville.http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2010/03/24/country-life-and-social-city-head-up-this-weeks-list-of-fastest-gaining-facebook-games-by-dau/ There are many things that can be done in Country Life.

Provided here are some tips and tricks to help speed up leveling and making money in this game. Before using these guides, make sure you are familiar with the basic gameplay of the game. The basic strategy and rules for the game are available at How to play Country Life on Facebook. Once you know the basics you can begin to take advantage of the methods for improving your game play.

Unlike other farming games, you can upgrade the items you produce either by feeding them to your animals or using machines. Instead of selling the clover right away, you can feed clover to the cow, which will produce milk for you. From the milk, you can produce cheese from the cheesemaker. Leveling up is critical in this game as you are able to unlock more items when you reach higher level.

In order to advance beyond a certain point and acquire some items you must recruit friends. If you successfully invite your friends to be your neighbors, you can expand your ranch, which is critical for you to be able to level up and gain money quickly. Having friends also means that you can give gifts to each other, especially expensive items and items that you can only get when you reach high level such as animals and machine.http://apps.facebook.com/countrylife/?_fb_fromhash=989ac4757ec4732a81c5f04c4e9a2d16&installed=1&session={%22session_key%22:%222.utfArWaNILE7iERjT0AJtQ__.3600.1280512800-1200520525%22,%22uid%22:1200520525,%22expires%22:1280512800,%22secret%22:%22ZF2uKLOgrx1WAT7z2TLljg__%22,%22sig%22:%22e39bcda8b5ee21685cf71ec550f264a0%22}

Many items also require you to reach a certain level before can buy and place them. Other items must be bought using ranch cash which may be acquired through the game or purchased with real money. Ranch cash may also be procured by competing third party offers that may include checking out a website or signing up for some service or product. Remember that these offers may require a purchase using real money in order to obtain the ranch cash.

• Invite your friends to expand your farm and to be able to exchange gifts.

• When you start, plant a lot of clovers and feed them to your cows.

• After you purchase your beehives, let the bees pollinate the clover patches before you harvest them.

• Upgrade your produce by feeding the produce to the animal, or upgrading them with the gears.

• Get expensive items such as animals and gears by exchanging gifts with your friends.

• The best way to gain money is to feed clover to your cow. Upgrade the milk from your cow to cheese with cheesemaker.

• Feed your animals, and while you are waiting, do other stuff while you’re browsing the internet. Now and then, check your animals to get their produce and to feed them again.

• When you are making sweaters from angora wool or from sheep wool, don’t forget to change the type of sweater you want the machine to produce.