Well, my daughter inadvertently solved my food glitch! She was playing around with Elder Tamil's preferences and changed him from Researching to Parenting and guess what happened? Yep! Every single adult woman is now caring for babies!

In desperation I threw everyone left into the ocean to get fish so they all wouldn't starve and there comes the algae! Good thing I'm only 10k short on tech points for Farming 3.

I have everyone now working on tech points until the crops come in. Shouldn't take that long, then I can finally progress.