By the way lurkily, in ALL the games I have played I have always had my trees boost to 1000, the trick is to not allow the villagers to strip them dry. I think you must have misunderstood what I meant, perhaps I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the beginning of the games, after a while when your population grows and most of the puzzles have been solved it doesn't matter so much.I have mentioned that my children do most of the food collecting with mushrooms. My trees never get down to less than 912 each before I stop them being harvested. I've never had any kind of event that had anything to do with the trees. And, you CAN prevent them from farming if you watch carefully and I always pause the game when I leave my desk, so not having trained any farmers to be just farmers is hardly irrelevant. If you're careful and play with attention it can be done. I'm in hour ten of playing this particular game and I haven't missed a single villager trying to harvest honey or fruit. In fact my honey supply just keeps getting bigger because the villagers haven't been harvesting.