This became a fairly big problem for me at one point.
I had started the game anew, and had about 1500 food saved up with 15 villagers.
However, my feild ran out of produce, and i had 7 people watering it continously, and yet it did not grow for hours. It took so long that my food went down to 0, my villagers kept getting sick, and i had to send everyone to ship in berries off the tree (thus abandoning the field) until it ran out. Meanwhile my scientists were researching as fast as they could to reach 50000 tech points to learn fishing, of course they were on about 30k, and nowhere near the goal.
Finally, just in time as all the berries had gone and i'd had 0 food for a little while, my field grew back. Should it really be taking hours (and yes, my game speed was fast)
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