Herbs are the highest-value square feet on a small farm, and the trickiest to count — the same basil bed sells as fresh bunches at Saturday's market, potted starts in May, and dried jars in November. Three products, three prices, one planting. MadeKeeper keeps the three businesses separate on paper the way they never are in the field.
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Say you cut and pot for a Saturday:
Three product lines, one table, $223.00 clear — and the channel split shows the potted starts carrying a third of it off one flat. That's the kind of fact that reshapes next spring's seeding.
Fresh-cut herb bunches sell like produce in most states — light paperwork. Potted live plants usually pull in a nursery license, and dried herbs in jars often ride the cottage food side. MadeKeeper keeps each line's records separate so the three sets of paperwork stay untangled; the programs themselves stay yours to check.
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Because they're different margins under different rules from the same bed. The split view is where herb growers usually discover the potted starts out-earn the bunches — and that the dried jars are almost pure margin off plants that were headed to frost anyway.
Attribute the bed's real inputs — seed, soil, water — across the season's cuts. It lands in pennies a bunch, which is honest: the cost of herbs is the picking and the market morning, and the hours math covers those.
A chef's weekly basil order runs as its own channel — steady volume at a set price, no table fee, no wilt risk. Most growers find it's the best margin of the week once the ledger shows it plainly.
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