Raising Cloak & Dagger Early On

I'm trying to raise cloak and dagger so I have more combat options to get more silver, but it seems all the early stuff requires maple leaves to make. Are maple leaves extremely rare or am I just unlucky? Almost all the maple trees with leaves falling of them have already been harvested, and they seem to never regen more leaves. The only other option I've found is stuffed rabbits, but I need to sell the pelts for silver because making the 150 for a claim is hard enough already.