Your all nuts way too long..plant apple trees the apples that fall off are not the same as ones you buy..build 6 trees infinite money your welcome..or build 5 butchers building early and turn rabbit into roast for 6 cents and sell for like 26 each..
Yes the silver approach is the way to go, mine the heck out of the silver mine, make ingots and then use the jeweler building to make silver bracelets.
This method is slow my guy, try building the cup game in the village, you can bet 3000 on a game and with a multiplier of 1.5 you can make 1500 within 30s, most efficient way of making money, just simply record the cups and slow the footage down for easy wins