How to Run Skyrim's Most Successful Plantation and Become Insanely Rich in the Process (AE)

This guide shall go over the steps necessary to own an incredibly successful plantation and get very rich from it.

How to Run Goldenhills Plantation and get Rich From It

Alright, so this guide will go over the steps you should take to become Skyrim's most successful farmer.

Step 1: Escape Helgen. This is pretty self-explanatory. Just escape Helgen Keep (complete Unbound) and then continue on your way to Whiterun through Riverwood, as you usually would in any playthrough.

Step 2: Head over to Goldenhills Plantation. Goldenhills can be found just on the road from Whiterun to Rorikstead. Once you're nearing Rorikstead, simply look to the right and you should see a farm with a ghost standing outside the main house.

Step 3: Kill the ghost. Killing the ghost will start a quest known as "The Unquiet Dead", which you will have to complete to gain ownership of the plantation. Simply follow the quest as it's very short and you'll eventually gain ownership of the property.

Step 4: A new quest known as "Farmer's Life For Me" should start, which will guide you through the basics of running the plantation, like planting crops and getting a steward.
We must now plant 10 crops, however you'll instead want to plant Blisterwort in every possible spot.

Step 5: Finding the Blisterwort. To find Blisterwort, head over to Sleeping Giant Inn and purchase several from there. Now head over to Arcadia's Cauldron in Whiterun and steal/purchase several from there. You may want to SAVE-PUNCH ARCADIA-LOAD SAVE after purchasing the Blisterwort to reset her inventory. Simply repeat this until you have 38 Blisterwort.

Step 6: Now that you have all the Blisterwort you currently can, head back to Goldenhills and plant them. You will now be tasked with finding a steward. Pretty much most mercenaries and followers can be recruited as a steward if you recruit them, bring them to Goldenhills, and ask them to become the steward.

Step 7: Now you'll need to ask your steward to hire 2 farmhands.

Step 8: After getting the farmhands, head over to the workbench in front of the house and build everything you can. If you don't have materials, here are all the materials you need, and where to find them: 1 Lock (Smithed), 12 Quarried Stone (Dawnstar Stone Quarry Behind Smelter), 5 Straw (Belethor), 21 Firewood (Found at any wood chopping block), 4 Iron Ingots (Bought from any Smith), 7 Nails (Smithed), 2 Hinge (Smithed), 3 Iron Fittings (Smithed).

Step 9: After creating all upgrades for the plantation, ask your steward to purchase animals for the Animal Pen.

And there you have it, your farm is perfect and ready to make you thousands!
Now all that's left for you to do is wait.
But...something's not right... (See next Section)

Taking Out The Competition

"But...something's not right..."
You see, there are many other farms and plantations in Whiterun Hold
These farms are what I like to refer to as "the Competition". And we must take them out. After all, what's the point in being successful if you're not the best, if you're not at the top?

Background: Alright, while there are several farms, ones like Pelagia aren't really at the top. I mean, when have you ever been walking around Whiterun and suddenly heard people talk about Pelagia? That's right, never (outside of Pelagia himself).
We are after the top dog.
And that is none other than Chillfurrow Farm. A farm run by none other than Nazeem himself.
So our goal is to eliminate Nazeem, and destroy the farm.
But how? Well first we'll need a plan on how to eliminate Nazeem, and I think I know just what to do.

Plan: Since Nazeem lives in, and spends most of his time in Whiterun, you'll need to assassinate him once he's outside of the city. You'll need to ambush him on the path from the main gate to Chillfurrow.
Once he is dead, head over to Chillfurrow Farm and using the key you should have found on him, head inside and take anything of value (it's also recommended to throw things like baskets and plates all around and cause a mess). After you've done that, simply take any crops from the farm and sell them off (along with the valuables).

And there you finally have it. The whole process from setting up Goldenhills to eliminating the competition.

[Chroment0.]

Ive spent like 30 minutes trying to find it and I cant. is it like a mod? Im so lost

[MrVideoGamer]

What time does nazeem go from to main gate to chillfurrow farm?

[daCodeMaster();]

Is this a mod or DLC because I can't find it at all

[Unc]

amazing

[Squeezle]

Wait... you mean I... can get to the cloud district very often??

[The Chocobo Racer]

Let's be real here, this is secretly just a roundabout way to clean Nazeem off the street right?

[Cookie]

@cleyjen23 did you know that if you harvest and then replant, the replacement grows back in only 24 hours? You get 1 less yield per plant, but it means less 24-hour wait spam, which can matter if you're using Survival Mode or basic needs mods, as well as if you're trying to pack more potion crafting in between cell/location respawn periods every 10-30 days.

[cleyjen23]

I went from character creation to max alchemy in 5.5 hours using Mora Tapenella, Creep Cluster and Scaly Pholiota at Goldenhills Plantation. When mixed together, they make a Fortify Carry Weight potion that gives the player the most amount of experience possible for farmable ingredients (as far as I've found anyway). Also in that same amount of time I pushed my Speechcraft to lvl 69 (nice) and amassed a little over 25000 gold.
If you plant 15 Mora Tapiella, 9 Creep Cluster and 9 Scaly Pholiota, it will give you 45 of each every time you harvest (about 3 days in game). The resulting potion sells for a lot of gold. You'll still have about 10 or so spots open to plant whatever else you want You can speed level your Speechcraft by selling the potions on-by-one to the same vendor even if they don't have any gold left. I did this until lvl 50 Speechcraft when I unlocked the merchant perk.

[Madolite]

As long as I get to slaughter Nazeem, I don't care how successful my farm will be.
Watching him lie face down in the mud on a rainy day already makes me the richest person in Skyrim, even with only deep monetary debt left from my debaucherous night out with Ysolde.

[Trumpette]

You forgot:

1. Ahlam hires thugs to punish you no matter how sneaky you kill Nazim she knows.
2. Thugs kill you because you are playing on the highest difficulty for a challenge and it was cold and you were freezing so had less life.
2a. You were playing on the highest difficulty with survival on, right?
3. One of your adopted brats inherits all your stuff.
3a. You did adopt? If not, all your stuff goes to Jarl Balgruuf because your planation is in his hold.

Conclusion: It's probably better to live the life of a random adventurer then a rich person in Skyrim.