Eda
When you first arrive in Oak Tree Town, Veronica explains that she hasn't finished preparing your assigned farm space. She requests that you spend your first week with Eda, an experienced farmer who has lived in the area for a very long time. Every morning, Eda will take you out to her farm space and show you how to sow and water crops, care for animals, and harvest the plants once they've matured. At night, you'll sleep in her farm house. After your training week has completed, Veronica will show you to your farm, which happens to be right next door to Eda's. Eda will also stop by and give you Hanako, the cow that you cared for while you were practicing your farming skills while working on her farm.
Eda lives by herself in the Sunnyside Farm area, as her spouse passed away a long time ago and her son and his family lives in the city. She really isn't alone though! Fellow farmer Fritz is a regular visitor, Angela stops by to check up on her health, and Veronica goes over to socialize with her on Saturdays.
She and Veronica came up with the challenges for the public spaces that are owned by the Guild. When Eda's lease for her field expires (the Spice field in normal mode, and the Tall Crop field in Seedling mode), remember to head to the Guild and ask Veronica for the rights to use the field; Eda will generously give up her stake in the public field so that a new farmer can use it.
Since Eda is one of your farming rivals, she does have a series of Rivalry events that you can trigger. These events will give you some back story about Eda and her family. You can only trigger her three rivalry events, Here to Help, Eda's Son, and Not Feeling Well, before Winter 1 of your first year. After that, they will no longer be viewable.
Birthday: Fall 13
Favorite Wrapping Paper Color: White
Favorite Outfits: Blue Work Clothes, Apron Skirt, Purple Farm Girls' Duds, Orange Work Outfit, Sky-Blue Raincoat, Yellow Halter Top, Brown Tailored Jacket, White Doctors' Uni.
Favorite Accessories: Straw Hat, White Newsboy Cap, Conical Hat, Wh. Large-Frame Glasses, Black Eyepatch, White Eyepatch
Liked Animals (+150 FP) Rabbit, Chicken, Chick, Cats, Sparrow, Fox
Gift Preferences
Favorite Gift (+1000 FP)
Simmered Potato = Potato. This cooking recipe can be purchased after you unlock the Sakura Country vendor at the Trade Depot, which requires to be at least in Fall of year 1 and sell at least 200,000 G worth of goods to the existing vendors. The recipe's ingredient is a simple Potato, so grow and save plenty of them during Spring season (since they don't grow in Fall). Stored crops in the Refrigerator will not rot or decay in this game.
Loved Gifts (+500 FP)
The easiest loved-level gifts are Turnip Salad and Turnip Soup. Turnips grow in the Spring season, so hoard them in your Rucksack or Refrigerator until you can cook them. The recipe for Turnip Salad comes with the kitchen, and the recipe for Turnip Soup can be bought from Asche at Silk Country for 800 G.
Other recipes that Eda loves are Daikon Salad, Soybean Salad, Spinach Soup, Lotus Root Soup, Baked Sweet Potato, Stir-Fried Udon, Boiled Radish, Chestnut Rice, and Chirashi Sushi. She also loves Master-level tools, which typically will not be something beginner farmers have access to.
Liked Gifts (+300 FP)
Some simple gifts that Eda likes are crop seeds, tree seedlings, and flower seeds (but not flowers); crops (Strawberry, Turnip, Tomato, etc., but not Sugarcane); eggs and milk; tree fruit; fireflies, beetles, and butterflies; tea leaves; Apricot, Chestnut, and Plum; fruit jams; White Cotton and White Linen; Animal Medicine and Old tools; White Pearl; animal treats; and fish like Sardine, Willowfish, and Pike.
She also likes a variety of cooked recipes. Some simple cook recipes include other salad recipes (Pumpkin Salad, Onion Salad, Spinach Salad, etc., but not Curry Salad), Mushroom Soup, Burdock Root Soup, Soy Milk, Turnip Stew, Roasted Mushrooms, Grilled Fish, Boiled Pumpkin, Mixed Vegetable Rice, Sweet Potato Rice, Rice Milk, Egg Rice Bowl, Soy Milk Pudding, Soy Milk Cake, Soy Milk Cookies, Spring Herb Tea, Summer Herb Tea, and Fall Herb Tea.
Disliked Gifts (-300 FP)
Empty Can, ores and gems, Pebble and Rock, Honeycomb, wine, gold and silver cloth, Ice, Zebu Cheese+, Weed, Spice, Poison Mushroom, Triton Trumpet, Venus Comb, Snowball
Butter Corn, Marlin Steak, Shrimp Chili, Curry Salad, Dry Curry, Curry Rice, Lasagna, Pot Sticker, Bouillabaisse
Hated Gifts (-500 FP)
Spicy Curry, Kimchi, Stew, Sturgeon Soup, Tom Yum Goong, Ratatouille
HORROR Gift (-800 FP)
Mitten Crab Soup
