Ok, so I have Farming tech and set 3 people to harvesting crops. The time between harvests seems to be random.

My first rotation was 30 min, second was 15 min, now my third is 60 min. With such a long wait period I tried to set 2 of my food gatheres to foraging again. They forage once then go back to watering the crops!

2 Questions:
1) Does the amount of watering the season before determing how long it takes for the next harvest?

2) How can I keep people foraging and not revert back to watering crops? I would hate to have to micro manage the villagers.

Ok, I have just had another season where I have to wait 60 min for my crops. My villagers are eating me out of house and home, and there are only 15 of them!

They eat more than I can produce from the field and my berry bush is fast loosing berries.

Its on easy difficulty and 2x speed.

When the game is running, farmers will prefer to tend the farm rather than forage for berries. That's just how they are. You can micromanage them, or leave the game off until the next crops appear.

15 villagers are not going to be well fed with only level 2 of Farming technology. I rarely allow my population to exceed a dozen or so villagers until my villagers have learned to fish.

The reason that the crops look random to you is that their cycle is determined from the time the crops appear, not from the time that they are depleted. Since you have so many villagers, and your farmers are gathering all of the food quickly, the farm will be empty for a longer period of time than if they harvested more slowly. There are a fixed number of crops to be harvested from each crop cycle, and picking them all really fast won't speed up the appearance of new crops.

Fishing is that much better than farming? I see screenshots of people having 600k food reserves with 90 people.

Ah, that makes sense then I suppose. Like a true growing season. It will take the same amount of time for the crops to reappear. Thanks.