Clover

Clover is one of the earliest-available crops in the Landleven game. It is one of the few that gives two types of produce: if pollinated by bees it gives honey in addition to the vegetable matter that is used primarily for feeding to a Holstein Cow for the production of milk.

Its cost is 15 coins per plot. The resulting honey, saleable for 5 coins, would reduce the net cost to 10. The clover itself can be sold for 20 coins, producing a profit of 10 for 4 hours of plot time, i.e. theoretically 2.5 coins per plot-hour, better than most crops, though the planting, harvesting, and sale times would take a few seconds at least, and the bees take a minute or so to do their stuff, thereby reducing that "2.5" figure slightly.

However, a player would rarely sell raw clover, because its value is increased by another 5 coins when converted to milk (25 coins) and can be increased further in other products, such as Milk Cheese, 32 coins, derived from a Cheese Master, which each player has at the start of a game. Selling the cheese would raise the theoretical value to 4.2 coins per plot-hour and the actual value to only a little less, because the milk and cheese processing takes only a couple of seconds. Once you have a Baker, your profit can be over 5 coins per plot-hour, particularly with Oat Bread.