How are you making money in Cottage Living?

Mavis has been living the frugal life in Cordelia's Cottage by the waterfall, using the simple living lot trait. There have been times when she subsisted entirely on home-grown, raw, carrots. I started the carrots in the correct season quite by accident (not realizing I had to pay attention to such things, not having gardened in the game before - I wasted a fair bit of money there, having to uproot stuff so I'd have enough room for useful crops). This was lucky, since she went for several sim weeks with very little income. She started out selling crops and only just started making a consistent profit by selling crops, egggs, Llama wool and canned goods. I sold some tulips too, but I'm starting to think growing flowers to sell is just too easy. She's been both too poor and too busy with her gardening and animals to start with knitting or cross-stitch. Right now she has 6 chickens, 1 llama, and 8 or 10 garden patches, 2 of which are given over to giant pumpkin and mushroom. My giant lettuce stopped getting bigger at 2 plants so she eventually harvested them. They sold for a good bit, but took quite a while to grow.