Complex dishes sell for more than raw materials. Although crops are easier to harvest and sell immediately, they return a smaller profit.
Complete board orders as often as possible. Send your crops and recipes as often as possible to earn money and keep storage available for more crops and animal products. Selling crops or products to neighbors will result in less profit than selling at the market. Turn down their request unless you really need to get rid of excess items. Help out your neighbors' farms on the market. You also allowed five helper actions per day. You can feed their animals, water their crops, etc. to earn coins, items, and experience.
Resources
Plant as many crops as possible and upgrade your fields for higher yields. Crops will provide the raw materials for recipes, sold at the market or to neighbors, and used for animal feed. Harvesting crops can also give you building materials such as wood, nails, and metals. Animals are expensive, but are easy to harvest, cheap to feed, and their ingredients can make recipes that sell for a lot of money. Most of the beginning crops that can be converted into animal feed are at a one to one ratio. Because clovers only cost two coins to plant, always use them if you need animal feed. They are the most efficient crop to convert. Expensive crops yield more feed than cheaper crops.
Storage
Because storage space is limited, watch make sure you have enough barn and silo space as you harvest. Create more room by selling items and making feed. If you are short on space, hold off on feeding your animals when they request food to avoid having to store the extra eggs, milk, and other products.