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My village has squash and peppers natively and they're growing fine. Traders brought wheat and I traded for 100 units of it, then designated a farm, but when I try to assign it to growing wheat, only my squash and peppers are options. What's the trick?
ETA: A couple years later, a trader arrived with a single cherry tree seed. I bought it and planted it with no problems.
The reason you can't trade your items with the merchant is because they have a trade value of 0. Certain merchants won't accept certain kinds of good for trade, and so the value of those goods will be set to 0 when trading with them. An example of this is herbs, which a lot of merchants won't accept for trade, but food merchants will.
You can trade for other types of livestock once you get a trading post up and running and a merchant arrives who has them to trade.
Best Answer
No trick. You bought the crop itself, what is used by the people to eat, NOT the seed. When you bought the cherry seed you unlocked the ability to grow cherries, but since you didn't buy the wheat seed, which costs 2250, your people just ate what you bought instead of you unlocking the crop to farm.