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While playing Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, you’ll quickly notice that your farm crops alone might not generate enough money to keep up with your upgrade needs in the bazaar. To bridge this gap, you’ll need to explore other income sources, some of which involve honey and mushrooms.
Honey is first introduced during the Honey Day festival, and mushrooms can be found scattered across the map fairly early in the game. However, if you want to accumulate these items in larger quantities, you’ll need to take specific steps.
### How to Get Honey
During the first month’s Honey Day, the mayor will visit your home to introduce the festival and give you a small amount of honey. You can also purchase honey from Cafe Madeleine during the festival. But these options are limited and tend to be expensive, so they’re not the best ways to stock up.
The better approach is to start producing your own honey after setting up Arata’s stall at the bazaar. You need to complete Arata’s stall request after reaching your first rank upgrade in the bazaar. Once his stall is operational, visit it in the bottom right corner of the bazaar and ask him to build a beehouse for you.
The beehouse will be built on the top right side of the mountains area, close to where you often find the Honey Nature Sprite. Once the area is ready, you must plant flowers in the designated slots below the beehouse. These can be wildflowers or cultivated ones from your farm, but they must be fully grown and appropriate for the current season; otherwise, they will spoil.
After planting the flowers, check on the hive after a few days. If you see a shine on it, that means honeycomb is ready for harvest. Take the honeycomb to the blue windmill to turn it into honey. Depending on the flowers you planted, you can produce regular, Invigorating, Mellow, or Royal honey.
### How to Get Mushrooms
Mushrooms appear early in the game once you unlock the mountains area, which is necessary to find various types growing beside trees and in hidden corners. To farm mushrooms effectively, go back to Arata and request him to set up a mushroom log.
This log will be built on the western side of the mountains near Webby’s location. Once it’s in place, you can plant mushroom seeds on it. Each harvest can produce up to six mushrooms daily. You can use some mushrooms to obtain more seeds at the blue windmill, sell the rest, or use them in recipes.
To increase the number of logs you can plant, consider upgrading your setup through Arata. To get mushroom seeds, you can either purchase them from the general store or complete friendship requests from Kagetsu. The more hearts you earn with her, the higher the quality of the seeds she offers.
### How to Improve Honey and Mushroom Quality
Unlike regular crops, improving the quality of honey and mushrooms isn’t as simple as using fertilizer. Instead, you’ll need to work with Nature Sprites by submitting honey and mushrooms to them. Webby can enhance your mushroom quality, and honey quality can be increased every four levels. Both sprites can be found near their respective farms.
Interacting with the sprites and giving them the trending honey or mushroom types will grant you significant quality boosts. You’ll see some of the most popular varieties when talking to them, and offering these will yield a larger improvement.
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