(updated title cos peeps were so helpful)

I've restarted four times now, and I'm having the same thing happen no matter how I try to play it.

I get three trees, then they stop producing food. I can't get the needed amount of tech points when my people won't research cos they're too worried about food. They then die before anymore food is produced. My chief only seems to create around 100 food which doesn't go very far...then I can't do anything for 24 hours.

I can't for the life of me work out what is wrong. I've downloaded the patches...but I'm still having the same issue. I had level 2 on the tech levels in my last restart in case that was the issue..but the same thing happened again. I've also tried just two trees as well.

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Please.

Lol