How to Farm in Stardew Valley and Make Money

With careful planning, hard work, and a little imagination, you can turn your hobby farm into a business that makes money. In Stardew Valley, there are lots of ways to make money farming, whether you grow food or raise animals.

Selling eggs is a great way to make extra money. Depending on the breed, you can get $3 or more for a dozen eggs. Another easy way to make money is to sell manure.

Garlic is a good crop for farmers to grow because it is easy to grow and can survive in a wide range of climates. Also, it is one of the most popular spices in the world and is in high demand.

Ed Fraser's farm is southwest of Rochester, New York, and that is where he grows hardneck garlic. He sells both seeds for next year's crop and food for people to eat now. He thinks it's important to understand what people want.

He doesn't grow types that are likely to get white rot, for example. He also plants the cloves with the pointy end facing up, and he puts mulch on his beds to stop weeds and keep the soil wet.

Mushrooms are a great cash crop for small farmers and people who only grow them part-time. Both bulk and retail costs are high for oyster and shiitake mushrooms, which are considered to be gourmet. They are also often used in place of meat in veggie recipes.

After the spawn is put into the medium, growing mushrooms doesn't take much care. A few extra things, like nitrogen additions made from peanuts, cotton, or corn distillers grain, are added to the waste.

Some mushroom farmers sell blocks that are ready to grow mushrooms. These blocks are made of sawdust and a grain that has spawn, or "pins," in it. The blocks are then put in a case and grown in a growing room until they are ready to be used.

Pumpkins are a popular cash crop that can be sold in a number of ways. They can be sold in bulk to local stores, farmers markets, and stands on the side of the road. To sell them in these places, a lot of hands-on sales and marketing work is needed.

During the fall season, up to $100,000 can be made by many farms that sell in bulk. This is especially true if the farm sells other things, like corn mazes or hayrides, in addition to food.

Some farms only grow certain kinds of pumpkins or gourds and sell them based on their size or name. This is a great way to make more money, since people often buy more than one pumpkin to give to friends and family.

Herbs are a great way to make a lot of money as a second source of income. They are used in herbal drinks, bath products, and perfumes, and many places serve them. For example, oregano is a well-known plant that you can grow on your own farm. Chamomile leaves, which are often used in teas, are another herb that can make you money.

To figure out how much you can charge for your herbs, you need to keep track of your costs and sales. Herb farmers can also make more money by selling goods with extra value, such as tinctures. They can also make money by putting their veggies in CSA schemes.

People who care about their health like to snack on jerky, and small businesses can make money by selling it. Entrepreneurs need to do a lot of study on the market and make a detailed business plan in order to be successful. To make their goods, they might also need to rent a warehouse or work with a meat processing business.

In Octopath Traveler 2, jerky can be used to heal a traveler's HP and SP. You can farm it by taking Ochette to a low-level place and catching monsters that are weak to damage. Then cook them, and they'll become jerky.

Pellets are useful as a biomass fuel. Depending on what resources are available, like labor, land, tools, and room for running the pelletizer, making pellets on a farm could be a good business idea. For example, a study of making pellets from switchgrass at Wood Crest Farm in Vermont shows that it costs about $88 to make one ton of pellets. This includes the prices of labor, equipment, and energy, but not the profit or taxes on land and property.

Manure is not an exciting way to make money, but it can add up. This method gives you an extra way to make money, whether you sell dung tea or soil cleansers like garlic.

Some farm managers are learning how much money they can make as more ag stores offer manure application services. This is especially true when industrial fertilizer costs a lot.

But because it is hard to get to, dung is an expensive alternative to industrial fertilizer. Some cattle farmers are changing how they store and handle manure, changing how they feed their animals, adding chemicals to manure, or pelletizing manure to make it worth more.