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Now let’s levelling with the ribbons strategy, which known gives great experience points and coins.

First of all, I marked the ribbons criteria with color text which you should noticed :

• Ribbons marked with Red
  Better not achieve these
• Ribbons marked with Orange
  Achieve these, not in rush
• Ribbons marked with Green
  Achieve these, as soon as possible, whatever it takes, at all cost!

More important thing : don’t forget to pay attention about your friends’ FarmVille feed stories. You know, from your Facebook Home (News Feed), your FarmVille friends will be posting their stories. They should be look like this:

Local Celebrity:
Simple. Just get 50 friends and you will have 160exp and 16.000 coins for free. The sooner you do it, the sooner you will be able to get Blueberries and Tomatoes which are the best seeds in the game.
Check this forum if you are needing neighbors – almost everyone there are active FarmVille players who will give you gifts almost every day if you gift them in return.
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Good Samaritan:
Simple. Just keep helping your friends whenever you can. Eventually you will get 175 exp and 8.500 coins for free (+ the Blue Ribbon that nobody reported data of yet).
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High Roller:
You will achieve this by earning coins along the way.
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A Pretty Penny:
There’s absolutely no reason to buy extra things to achieve this ribbon since you will be getting this ribbon eventually and then you would just have wasted money too early.
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Cream of the Crop:
Harvesting crops is what we’re going to do to level up anyway so just relax – you will get this ribbon and it’s wealth eventually.
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Knock on Wood:
Only achieve it through gifted trees that you put on the outer edge of your farm.
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Zoologist:
Only achieve it through gifted animals.
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Architect:
This is an interesting ribbon.
It gives 2150 exp for 10500 coins (which is 1 exp for 4,88 coins – the best exp for coins rate in the game so far).
The most optimal way of achieving this is to build 30 Rest tents at once just after doing a harvest (you will need to have at least 30000 coins before doing this – don’t try to do it before that since it won’t be worth it – and don’t worry about having enough money to harvest afterwards – you will have enough (to everything but tomatoes)) and then you can delete a few of your plots BEFORE you plow you field – and when you achieved the Architect Blue Ribbon you simply sell the Rest Tents, then create new plots again and then finally continue doing the optimal harvest of your level.
Don’t get this ribbon before you have expanded to a 16×16 farm.
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Pack Rat:
250 decorations required – Standard Hay Bales (100 coins) are the cheapest so far. You are not awarded any coins for this ribbon but you are awarded 4 decorations worth a total of 425 coins if you sell them.
It gives 425 exp for 24575 coins (which is 1 exp for 57,82 – a terrible rate)
This ribbon is not for those who want to level fast.
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Animal Shelter:
Achieve this as soon as possible. Nobody but the developers actually know how the math works but I am very sure that each time you click a “Adopt a [lost animal]” link there’s a small change that you will successfully adopt the animal. As far as I have experienced it has nothing to do with how fast you click the link or how many clicked the link already. This means that this luck (or illegal advanced hacking lol) is a factor of this achievement. Remember, whenever you add another friend on facebook, check their wall history for these lost animals – they may have some that you are able to adopt – even if it’s weeks old (I have a friend who did this a few times).
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Shutterbug:
Whenever you get a new FarmVille friend (you don’t have to be neighbors) just take a photo of their farm. Now if the game won’t register your photo here’s a few tips to get it working:

• Wait a few minutes.
• Refresh the page.
• Clear your browser cache and restart your computer.
• Go to your “FarmVille Photos” photo album on Facebook and click on the “Post Album to Profile” link.

If it doesn’t work by then, then just try taking photos of every new FarmVille friend you get – it’s better try – even though it may bug.
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Green Thumb:
Now this is not actually a green. More in a middle category between orange and green. The reason that I mark it green is not because you should just plant one of each crop as soon as possible – but you should do it whenever it’s worth it.
This is a list over the 17 most profitable crops in order of high to low profit:

1. Tomatoes
2. Sunflowers
3. Coffee
4. Broccoli
5. Blueberries
6. Raspberries
7. Peppers
8. Rice
9. Corn
10. Pumpkin
11. Pineapples
12. Potatoes
13. Yellow Bell
14. Watermelon
15. Strawberry
16. Cotton
17. Soybeans
18. (Squash)

Now the most optimal way would be to wait for level 35 (for Broccoli) to do this but if you want the money and exp boost a lot earlier then I recommend doing it when you hit level 23. Then plant everything on that list except for Broccoli, Corn and Sunflowers (and you don’t have to plant any Strawberries, Raspberries, Pumpkin (and/or Rice if you also used them previously) – and you will have the rest of the field full of either Tomatoes or Blueberries anyway) – and then plant a plot of Squash as well.
Then when you hit level 24 you plant a plot of Corn, and when you hit level 25 you plant a plot of Sunflowers. And then you will have the ribbon.

If you’re wondering why I order these 17 plants in profit is because since everyone of them (except for the berries) suck in exp gain then coins matters much more (because of the soybean-delete method which I will mention later).
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Tree Hugger:
This ribbon is profitable IF YOU DO NOT BUY ANY OF YOUR TREES. If you are one of those who are receiving extremely many gifts a day then just keep at least one of each of all the crappy trees until you got this ribbon.

Just ask your FarmVille friends to send you the specific gifts you are missing (if you put all FarmVille friends in a list called “FarmVille” (see this post for more info, also on privacy settings from FarmVille-only friends) just go to Facebook and Compose a new message (click on Inbox in the top and you will see it) and then in “To:” box you write the name of your list, e.g. “FarmVille” without quotation marks).
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Noah’s Ark:
This ribbon is identical to the “Tree Hugger” ribbon above – but with animals.
Scroll down for the Trees and Animals guide.
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Not Spoiled, Gifted!:
Just make sure to keep only one of each gift in your Gift Box.
If you receive the same gifts from your friends all the time, then see the “Tree Hugger” ribbon above for more info.
If you don’t have any friends who are sending you gifts, then see the “Local Celebrity” ribbon above for more info.