>>517914589>is farming just 'passive income' and not super profitableFarming is passive income, and it can be extremely profitable
Most single crops don't match up a single big fish, but you can plant dozens or hundreds of crops at a time, and all you have to do is wait while your sprinklers water them each day until they're ready to harvest.
It's a struggle to get started with it early on when you don't have money to buy seeds and don't have sprinklers to water crops for you, but once you have the money and infrastructure to support big fields of crops it's absolutely worth the investment.
Tip: Upgrading your Hoe and Watering Can makes them more efficient and lets you till/water multiple squares at a time by holding the button down when you use them. Saves you a lot of time and energy.
>am I meant to cook with them and sell that as well?Cooking is almost never profitable, unfortunately.
>How am I supposed to handle farm products like fruits and vegetables? I send a couple towards preservers jars and dehydratorsYou have the right idea. Selling raw produce is fine if you don't have the infrastructure to process it yet, but ideally you should ALWAYS process your crops, it increases your profits MASSIVELY.
I'll second what
>>517916351 said, Artisan is the most impactful skill perk in the game and you should be planting more crops just to get your Farming level to 10 ASAP, even if you don't really plan on relying on farming in the long run.
Artisan Goods are already the most valuable category of item and Artisan makes them 40% more valuable. Outside of Farming, Smoked Fish also counts as an Artisan Good, and it's one of the most valuable kinds because it benefits from stacking multipliers in a unique way. When it double the value of fish it also includes the +40% value from Artisan, so you can get almost triple (280%) the value of your catch, which gets really stupid with high-value fish like Lava Eels or Legendary Fish.
