I was asking why you were prejudiced about farming games, when there have been some very interesting ones released (especially the aforementioned Harvest Moon series, which Farmville imitated and then sucked all the life out of it)

You might be able to emulate it, Rune Factory 1, 2 and 3 are on the Nintendo DS. (Rune Factory 4 is on 3DS)

The Rune Factory series is basically the Harvest Moon as its core (Growing crops, managing your energy, talking to the townsfolk and getting all cuddly with the girls) and then adds in a whole Action RPG section to it, which involves going out to monster filled areas and fighting with a variety of different weapons and spells, mining ores and taming wild beasts so you can milk/ride/shear/whatever them, and then using all those materials to craft new weapons, tools, a huge variety of food that provides you different buffs, etc.

Farmhands is a crude gamemaker remake of Harvest Moon, with multiplayer. (but obviously with far less content)
It's missing the social interaction with the NPCs, which is my absolute favorite part of the Harvest Moon series, but oh well, it's free. Maybe I should reverse engineer it and add that in.