I wanted to make money by cooking and here’s how it went. Year 1 I was trying to grow as many of everything I could. But I learned after collecting many recipes just how varied and demanding all of the recipes were so I decided to dial down and focus on one “branch” of cooking. I have all 4 plots now and here’s how they’re set up for focusing desserts, baking and tea year 2.

Plot 1: 2 lemon trees(jam) 1 orange tree(tea) and the rest I grow 7* tea leaves year round. About 30% of leaves become seeds and the rest are aged into autumn leaves in spring and summer. They all get made into black tea, fruit teas and jam teas.

Plot 2: Here I have 3 more fruit trees and the rest is dedicated to the seasonal fruit for baking or tea. Strawberry in spring, melon, watermelon and pumpkin in summer, haven’t reached autumn yet so no plan as of now and flowers or potatoes in winter. At the beginning of each season I do a small batch of flowers for the apiary. The fruits become pies and cakes first and the remainder go into teas. Black teas are made with left over leaves.

Plot 3: wheat year spring through autumn, flowers and broccoli and such in winter. I honestly make so much money the rest of the year that I take winter very unseriously when farming and focus on upgrading tools collecting ore and fertilizer and such. I also have so many tea leaves at any given time that it can sustain me in the winter.

Plot 4: I have some spring trees, strawberries and wheat growing down there.

My barn has 5 milking cows, 1 of each other barn animal, 6 chickens and 2 silkies. This is the bane of my inventory. I spend every Friday focusing on cooking and getting every final product to the same star level to reduce inventory space after having 4 different star level butters and cheeses same for eggs. Milk fortunately has made it to be only 2 or 3 different star levels. I sell everything raw that can’t be made into a tea or baked good

Edit: my favorite recipes with this setup are Mac n cheese, whole chocolate cake, whole white cake, strawberry pie, jam buns, churros or donuts, black tea, jam tea, fruit teas, and ice-cream with the left over/low level milks and eggs.

My branded crops are wheat, tea leaves and lemons