How to get wheat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is ripe with opportunities for crafting, cooking, and more. The popular life sim from Nintendo, like many others in the genre, allows players to grow their own crops and cook various dishes. There are a handful of options in this regard, like tomatoes and potatoes.
One of the most important crops in the game is wheat, which forms the foundation of many delicacies, like bread. But how can players obtain it in the first place?
While many recipe ingredients are straight-up purchasable from vendors in the game, certain items are not. Wheat is one of them.
The only way to get wheat is to grow it. To do so, players must first obtain wheat starts. They can be purchased from a vendor called Leif whenever he visits the player's island. He and his humble stall can be found outside the Resident Services building.
The wheat starts cost 280 Bells to purchase. After getting them, players will need to sow and water them until they grow. They need to make sure they have a plot of land available for farming purposes.
Wheat should take about three days to grow fully, assuming it is being watered daily. Once ready, it can be harvested and used in recipes.
To find Leif, players will need to meet some prerequisites. First, they must visit Harv's Island by selecting the option from Orville the dodo, who works at the airport in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Once there, players should talk to Lloid, who will mention hiring "a botany expert with the greenest of thumbs."
However, players must have 100,000 Bells on hand to proceed. Once the payment has been made, they can visit the Plaza the next day to find that Leif has set up shop there.
As far as food recipes go, wheat is used to make flour and whole-wheat flour in
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