There arent many ways you can start this game and succeed. Id say your pretty much doomed where your at now. The first thing you should do is put 4 guys on research, and 2 on foraging. Once you have enough for 2nd level food research buy that immediately. Keep foraging and researching. When your first crop come up, harvest it out then go back to foraging. Keep your main people on research, dont worry about increasing population but by maybe one or two for now. It might take awhile but you need 50,000 more tech to get to level 3 food. Once you get level 3 you may have to find out how they can use it, its not really hard. But after that you can pretty much do as you want. The best thing though i think is get level 2 immediately then cycle between the bush and the crops till get you level 3. Something at least i've noticed is my bush has never run out, it gets down to 1 berry then just stays there. He he.