When it comes to making a solid profit in Stardew Valley, no place is better than Ginger Island. This tropical island works just like the Greenhouse; any crop can grow here all year round, no matter what season you might be in.
Because of that, even players who are well into the end-game can revise their strategy to get the most out of the best crops in the game. Keep in mind that processing crops into fine artisan goods effectively raises their value by a value that isn't to be scoffed at.
Updated July 29, 2023 by Jacqueline Zalace: Ginger Island is a great place to grow crops of any season in Stardew Valley. We've updated this guide with even more crops for you to grow in order to fully maximize your profits.
8 Pineapple
Pineapples are a late addition to Stardew Valley, and they are quite valuable. It turns out that they make more money in the long run when compared to unprocessed Starfruit because they continuously grow. Just plant them once, make sure to water them every day, and then profit.
Getting a hold of a substantial amount of pineapple seeds can prove tedious, though. The Ginger Island Trader exchanges one of these precious seeds for the Magma Caps found in the Volcano Dungeon. Once you have a few dozen pineapple plants going, you might want to hold off on selling all your harvest and process some in a seed maker.
Pineapples net a good amount of money, especially if you're not fond of processing the stuff you grow into a keg or preserve jar.
7 Hops
These are good only if you process them in a keg to make pale ale. Theoretically, hops have some of the most efficient money return per seed bought in the entire game. If you were to fill the entirety of Ginger Island with hops and kegs, you would make 360,000 gold per day. However, there's a huge catch that might make you reconsider and plant something else.
First and foremost, Hops grow on trellises, so you have to get a little creative with how you plant them. Otherwise, the harvest is going to be a disaster. Secondly, Hops regrows and processes into ale very quickly. In order to make 360,000 every day, you'd have to devote all your time to picking hops and putting them in kegs. Of course, if you have the patience, it's worth it.
6 Starfruit
Seasoned Stardew Valley players already know that Starfruit is among the very best Summer crop to grow. That's mostly because Starfruit Wine sells for quite a lot, especially when aged in the cellar back on your farm in the valley. Naturally, Starfruit can grow without limits on Ginger Island. So, as long as you can process bulk quantities of it, you should be good to go.
Since this crop doesn't continuously grow, you will have to replant it after every time you harvest it. Luckily, Starfruit takes 13 days to grow without fertilizer, so you won't be making frequent trips to Ginger Island.
5 Fairy Rose
This might come as a surprise, but Fairy Roses are incredibly valuable. They don't sell for exorbitant amounts, but when fully grown in close proximity to beehives, they produce Fairy Rose Honey. This particular type of honey is the most valuable in the entire game, since it sells for 680 gold without the Artisan profession, which boosts its value to a whopping 952 gold.
A beehive has to stay within a five-tile range from a Fairy Rose otherwise, it'll just make Wild Honey, which isn't particularly valuable.
You can place quite a few beehives around a single Fairy Rose, wait about four days, and then come back to collect tons of precious honey. The only challenging factor with this strategy is having enough beehives, so the more at your disposal, the better. Crafting a single beehive requires wood, coal, iron, and maple syrup.
4 Cranberries
Cranberries alone aren't too impressive. The base price of a single berry is 75g, and if you manage to harvest one of Iridium quality, this will just increase to 150g. Fortunately, you won't ever just harvest one cranberry at a time.
Upon harvesting, you will gain two berries, with a ten percent chance to harvest a few more. On top of this, cranberry bushes will continuously regrow every five days. If you have the Artisan Profession and use Iridium cranberries, you can sell at least two bottles of wine for 1,260g!
3 Fruit Trees
Fruit trees bear a variety of fruit. One tree takes a full season to grow, but will only produce fruit during a certain season. For example, the orange tree will only produce oranges in the summer.
Rather than waiting for the right season, we suggest keeping your fruit trees on Ginger Island. Each day, one fruit will grow. You don't even have to visit every day, as the trees will store extra fruits, allowing you to harvest them all at the same time.
2 Sweet Gem Berry
Sweet Gem Berries grow from the rare seed. As the name suggests, these seeds are rare, as well as expensive. Once you do manage to get your hands on this berry, you will be blown away at the price. While a Sweet Gem Berry can't be processed, the raw fruit sells for a base price of 3,000g.
It takes a full 24 days (during the fall) for the rare seed to grow into the berry, which can be a hassle if you are planting it in the later part of a season. Rather than timing your harvest, simply plant rare seeds on Ginger Island. If you manage to grow some of Iridium quality, you will get a whopping 6,000g per berry!
1 Ancient Fruit
The Ancient Fruit is the overall best crop in the game. It is not the most valuable one in terms of the selling price per single unit, but it does have a few key characteristics that are just perfect for Ginger Island Namely, it continually grows, and it can be processed in kegs to make Ancient Fruit Wine.
Overall, if you can plant an Ancient Fruit seed in every tillable tile available on the Ginger Island Farm, you'll walk away with hundreds of precious fruit to process in kegs. This is of the utmost importance: do put all Ancient Fruits in a keg — it takes very little time for them to become the best wine in the game.