I love this! So far, making money, especially when I barely get a chance to play with work and making actual money taking up so much time in my life, is the biggest hurdle to me getting very far into the game.

I wish more game developers would include a “You’re old and have extremely limited free time” mode.

nice! I ended up with something similar to this for a while, and it worked really well as a source of income for me. Of course, now I've delved into something more complicated. It feels really good to get the different ingredients and have the companion crop bonuses working together! Here's a quick dumb spreadsheet layout: