chas... this game isn't going to be finished in a couple of hours, that's the truth. If you have a child, use that child to pick the mushrooms that spring up.. that might help you to survive until you can buy farming tech. Building tech is no use to your villagers if they haven't got enough food to eat! And the golden child is a long way away... you'll have to have level 3 in every tech before that GC appears
Try putting the game on 1/2 speed... that might help your villagers survive (with mushrooms) long enough for you to get farming.