Seeds and fruits can be planted by selecting the desired item in your inventory then tapping a block of surface dirt or compost.

If fruit trees are planted too close to other trees, their growth will be stunted. Food can be quickly obtained in real-time by planting then having a Blockhead meditate. Stop meditating when the fruit or vegetable appears.

Harvest vegetables with a machete to increase yield. Planting anything in compost will tend to increase its size and yield.

Favorable Creature Breeding Conditions

Resources Creature Conditions
Dodo Feather, Dodo Meat Dodo Apple Trees
Fur, Leather Dropbear Pine Trees
Leather, Carrots Donkey Carrots

Favorable Plant Growing Conditions

Resource Item to Plant Medium Zone
Apple, Stick Apple Dirt Temperate
Carrot Carrot Dirt Temperate
Cherries, Stick Cherries Dirt Temperate
Chilli Chilli Dirt Equatorial
Coconut, Stick Coconut Dirt, Sand Equatorial
Coffee Cherry, Stick Coffee Cherry Dirt Equatorial
Corn Corn Dirt Temperate
Flax, Flax Seed Flax Seed Dirt Temperate
Mango, Stick Mango Dirt Equatorial
Maple Wood, Stick Maple Seed Dirt Temperate
Orange, Stick Orange Dirt Temperate
Pine Wood, Stick Pine Cone Dirt Temperate
Prickly Pear Prickly Pear Sand Equatorial
Sunflower Seed Sunflower Seed Dirt Temperate

Note: For purposes of farming, "Temperate" zones means areas between polar and equatorial zones.