Planting crops on your FrontierVille homestead is a valuable way to not only earn gold, but experience and food as well. As in any game, some crops are more valuable than others, but for different reasons. Once you decide if you want to level quickly, build up your gold faster, or stockpile food, use the chart below which details each FrontierVille crop as it is released.

Planting your crops requires no energy, which makes this a great task to complete before you are ready to sign off. Just remember to come back before they wither!

The wither time for a crop is twice what it takes to mature. Therefore, if a crop takes 1 hour to reach maturity, it will take 2 hours to wither after it reaches maturation. Once a crop has withered, you must clear or delete it. Clearing withered crops will not cost energy and you are refunded half the original cost.

It does cost 1 energy to harvest each planted crop. However, you are able to hire 2 neighbors each day to complete tasks around your homestead. Choosing 2 neighbors with a high reputation to harvest your crops for you, is a super way to save energy and still gain all the benefits of the crop being harvested.

Example: If you have a neighbor with a reputation level of 26, you will earn 26 XP for them harvesting crops/trees/animals for you.

FrontierVille Crop Chart

Note: Since you are able to hire neighbors to harvest your crops, we have assumed no energy cost to harvest in the calculations below. Keep this in mind when making your planting decisions.

Req’d	Crop	Time	Cost	Earnings	Exp Bonus	Food Bonus	Profit Per Hour
Lvl 1	Clover	5 min	10	13	1	0	36 per Hr
Lvl 1	Tomatoes	15 min	25	30	2	0	20 per Hr
Lvl 1	Pumpkin	1 hr	50	67	4	1	17 per Hr
Lvl 1	Wheat	24 hr	365	587	10	4	9.25 per Hr
Lvl 1 + 4 Neighbors	Potatoes	4 hr	90	141	6	2	12.75 per Hr
Lvl 1 + 5 Neighbors	Flax	8 hr	150	244	7	2	11.75 per Hr
Lvl 1 + 9 Neighbors	Cotton	72 hr	600	1200	12	4	8.3 per Hr
Lvl 6	Corn	12 hr	225	351	8	3	10.5 per Hr
Lvl 7 + 6 Neighbors	Peas	48 hr	475	885	11	4	8.5 per Hr
Lvl 15 + 11 Neighbors	Peanuts	4 days	725	1450	13	5	7.6 per Hr
Lvl 17	Sunflowers	18 hours	310	530	10	3	12.2 per Hr
Lvl 19	Eggplant	2 hours	465	494	4	3	14.5 per Hr

Last Update: July 3, 2010 – We will update this list as new crops are released!