Everyone warns German chamomile needs a lot of hand labour to pick. Is it still worth growing given that?
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The labour warning is real and you must take it seriously. German chamomile flowers are small and must be hand picked repeatedly over the season, which needs a lot of labour, and if labour is costly or scarce in your area, that alone can wipe out the profit. So whether it is worth it depends on your access to affordable picking labour, often family or local women, and on having a confirmed buyer paying a fair price. Where labour is available and a buyer is lined up, it can be a worthwhile cool season crop. Where labour is dear, it usually is not. Be honest about your labour situation, cost the picking properly into your budget, confirm a buyer and price in writing, and start small to test before scaling. Treat any income figure as an unverified range until you have sold a lot.
Picking is the whole story with chamomile. We managed because the family picks. If you have to hire all the labour, the maths gets hard.