How to Stock Displays in Run Your Own Farmstead

Stocking a market display in Run Your Own Farmstead comes down to one move: pick up your harvested produce, carry it to a display shelf in your shop, and place it there. The display counts what you load onto it and tells you when the stock is finished, and refilling after sales is just the same move again. Here's the full loop, plus the point where you can hand the job over to a worker.

How to put produce on a display

1. Harvest a crop first. Displays stock with whatever you've pulled from your fields, so grow and pick your crops before heading to the shop. The how to grow crops guide covers that side.
2. Carry the harvest to a display in your shop. In one playthrough, the player grabbed a batch of 8 freshly picked carrots and walked them straight over to a display shelf.
3. Place the produce on the shelf. Placing the carried batch on the display is what stocks it — the gameplay loop is grow, harvest, put on display, serve customers.
4. Watch the count. A display being restocked shows a count of the items placed on it — the carrot batch read eight — and announces when the stock is finished. Once the shelf is full, it's ready for customers.

Refilling displays after sales

Customers buy straight off your displays, so stock drains as the day goes on. Refilling is the same loop on repeat: harvest more crops, carry them over, and place them on the display to top the shelf back up. In one recorded session, a display that refilled quickly finished stocking and the in-game day then ended with a profit. The selling side is covered in more depth in the market guide.

Hand refills to a stocker

You don't have to haul every crate yourself forever. Once you've progressed far enough to hire staff — worker hiring opened up around level 4 in that playthrough — you can hire a stocker, whose job is refilling displays. Once staff are on the payroll, the worker who picks things up is the one who puts the boxes down, so restocking carries on without you standing at the shelves. You're free to handle the farm side while the displays stay stocked; see the guide on how to make money for where that fits into your farm's growth.