It helps to be dedicated to seeing a difficult goal get accomplished. In my case it was running in "hard mode" and not getting Level 3 Farming.

I knew that I needed to keep my kids "mushroom hunting" and also always needed to make sure that there was at least one kid around. Which also made it more difficult as there were more mouths to feed...

I got pretty good at search the likely areas for mushrooms and keeping track of where my kids were, or places they liked to visit. Every time I spotted a mushroom, I put the game on pause and worked to get as many kids as I could to pick the mushroom (it was 1 to 5 at any given time...) Sometimes the kid got distracted or stopped on the way to the food bin, but most made it to help the food resources of the village.

I didn't keep track of how many red mushrooms were picked, but not that many, especially for the last day or so of searching. \:\(

Now the village is still functioning with the GC. He'll add to the food bins, create berries and restore the crops, so I can let the game run for a few minutes in a background window and there is plenty of food to be picked/harvested while the game is shut off. Oh, and I still haven't bought Level 3 Farming, so there are researchers still at the table!
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