Yes I do mean boosting up to 1000. I don't train any of my villagers to be JUST farmers. They all get trained to Trainee level in building, farming and research at the start of the game. I currently have 12 villagers (I got an event where I had a barrel of babies which were actually two ten year olds who are now 15). I have three Master builders and three Master Researchers and one Adept Researcher. The rest are kids, I have a child chief too. Three of my villagers are adept farmers because I wanted to solve the weather dance puzzle. I made them adept by dropping them on the hive but not allowing them to reach the food bin with the honey. One is also a Master researcher and the other two Master builders ( both are runners too!!) At the moment I have 2568 food, three trees at 960 and 360 in the hive. All done by allowing the kids to collect mushrooms by pausing the game and dropping at least three kids on the mushrooms. I have been lucky enough to get a lot of red mushrooms in this game which helps a LOT! I have now got fishing and I occasionally send someone off to fish to keep the food stocked past 2500. With such a small tribe I find it easy to keep track of them so if I notice anyone going off to harvest honey or pick fruit I stop them! Anyway, my tree did come back to life a few hours ago so all is good !! I've played a few games where I try to keep just the kids responsible for food and so far I haven't lost anyone to starvation!