在线农学家们请注意啦！好消息！玩家在社交网络游戏《FarmVille》（游戏活跃用户已突破4700万）花费的精力总算能够得到实际应用啦，玩家将有机会管理真实农场，饲养真实动物（就是会有真实生老病死的动物），庄稼将无法能再像游戏中那样迅速成长，而一切只需舒服呆在家中便可现实。

myFarm

MyFarm项目

这是真的。为了帮助玩家重新同食物来源之地建立联系，英国国民托管组织推出了MyFarm（游戏邦注：这个项目是受热门在线游戏启发），活动中1万名市民将分工管理英国剑桥郡的劳作农场。

劳作农场地图

MyFarm map

一次付费48美元，MyFarm农夫将可以参与重大决定投票，从种植什么庄稼到购买什么公牛、使用什么机器。农场每月将开展一次重大决议投票，但有些决定可能需要频繁投票（游戏邦注：如决定种植适用制作面包的小麦还是适用曲曲饼的小麦）。

对于农场情况一无所知的市民可以登陆MyFarm网站，从在线农夫的视频、讨论和帖子中获取相关信息。为方便市民做出决定，活动主办方将为参与者提供系列决定选项，市场只需选择相应选项。

活动有何限制？据农场管理者Richard Morris表示，他将种植在线农夫想要种植的一切作物。他还表示，“在线农夫无法选择种植大麻或者香蕉，但农夫无疑会提供一些奇怪决定，一些我无法采用的决定。”（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Play FarmVille (for Real) in the UK: God Save the Crops

Attention, online agriculturalists: Good news! All those hours of FarmVille, the social networking game (which has more than 62 million active users) may finally pay off, by allowing you the opportunity to take care of a real farm with real animals (that actually die!) and no “instant grow” option for crops — all from the comfort of your own home!

Gulp.

It’s true. In an effort to help folks reconnect with “where their food comes from,” The U.K.’s National Trust is launching MyFarm, a project inspired by the popular online game that will allow up to 10,000 individuals to control almost every aspect of a 2,500-acre working farm in Cambridgeshire, England.

Think you could do it? Get the for-real farm scoop (and a handy map!) after the jump.

For a onetime fee of $48 (sorry, no gold coins), MyFarm “farmers” will get to vote on all major decisions — from what crops to grow to what bulls to buy to what machinery to use. There will be one big vote each month, but some decisions could trigger more frequent votes, like “bread-making wheat or biscuit wheat?”

Information for the agriculturally ignorant is made available on the MyFarm website through videos, discussions, and posts from on-site farmers. To make things easier, participants are given a list of choices for each decision versus just deciding on what to do.

Restrictions? Duh. While farm manager Richard Morris told The Guardian he’d plant whatever the online farmers wanted to grow. He also said, “The online farmers will not be able to choose to grow cannabis or bananas, but undoubtedly there will be some strange decisions, some decisions I would not have made.”（Source：phoenixnewtimes）