With the latest Version 2.0 Update, you are now able to plant and farm five new crops, including the carrot!

Read on for information on where to buy carrot starts, how to harvest carrots, how to use carrots for Food Recipe DIYs and more!

How to Get Carrots

Leif's Garden Shop Kapp'n's Boat Tours

From Leif's Garden Shop

You can buy Carrot Starts from Leif all year round for the price of 280 Bells! Catch the sloth at the plaza in front of Resident Services or at Harv's Plaza!

How to Unlock Leif's Garden Shop

From Kapp'n's Boat Tours

Produce crops can also be found while exploring mysterious islands that you come across in Kapp'n's Boat Tours! For a price of 1,000 Nook Miles, Kapp'n can take you to islands that you've never seen before.

How to Find Kapp'n and Ride the Boat Tours

How to Grow Carrots

Grow your carrots by selecting carrot starts in your inventory and choosing to “Plant 1”.

You can also choose to dig a hole in the ground with your shovel and bury a carrot!

Carrot Growth Progress

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4

Once planted, carrots will take a total of 4 Days to fully grow and be harvested.

How to Grow Crops and Vegetables

Water Daily to Produce More Crops!

Tending your crops daily with a watering can will give you more crops when it comes to harvesting! Although your crops will still grow regardless, why say no to a few hundred (or more!) Bells?

How to Get Bells Fast

How to Use Carrots

Use for Food Recipe DIYs Sell at Nook's Cranny Use as Decorations Eat for Stamina

Use for Food Recipe DIYs

Carrots are used as a produce crop to make delicious Food DIY Recipes with.

How to Cook Food

Sell at Nook's Cranny

Carrots actually sell for more than their starts cost at 350 Bells a piece. Check how much you can earn from harvesting Carrots with our profit calculation below!

Carrot Harvest Profit Calculations

# of Starts	Cost of Starts	Harvested, Watered Once	Harvested, Watered Twice	Harvested, Watered Thrice
1	280	350	700	1,050
5	1,400	1,750	3,500	5,250
10	2,800	3,500	7,000	10,500
20	5,600	7,000	14,000	21,000

Use as Decorations

You can place Carrots to decorate on your island! However, leaving too many of the on the ground could lower your island rating.

You can place them on top of furniture, such as tables and shelves to avoid this!

How to Raise Your Island Star Rating

Eat for Stamina Points

Eating carrots, much like you can with fruits, turnips, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots, can get you up to 10 points of stamina that allows you to things you cannot normally do in the game.

What Happens When You Eat Fruit?

What are Carrots?

Carrots can be bought at Leif's Garden Shop for 280 Bells or found in mysterious islands during Kapp'n's boat tours. When harvested, Carrots can be sold for 350 Bells.

Carrot Harvest Profit Calculations

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