Herbs

Overview

Herbs are the quickest Diversification crops. They are planted in spring or summer and harvested in summer or fall. Thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, mint and lemon balm are perennials, so one planting can be harvested again and again.

The game's note for these enterprises: they add a distinct production schedule, food-safety needs, labor pattern and market channel.

The herbs

How enterprise plots work

• Diversification opens once your farm is established: Year 2, Level 5, 20 lavender harvests or 25 reputation (any one).
• You start with 4 enterprise plots and can add 2 more at a time for 250 coins × your current plots, up to 12.
• A crop grows one week each farm week. When it has grown its full weeks and the season is right, tap Harvest.
• A harvest pays the crop's value × (1 + reputation ÷ 300) in coins at once, gives 5 XP, and puts one unit in your diversified inventory.
• Annual crops leave the plot after harvest. Perennial crops stay and are ready again 5 weeks later.

Tips

• Oregano and chamomile pay the most per harvest (86 coins before the reputation bonus), but take 9 weeks.
• A perennial herb is ready again 5 weeks after each harvest, as long as it is still summer or fall.
• Reputation raises every harvest payment, so herbs earn more as your farm's name grows.

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