The children can collect mushrooms which may be the only way you can collect food for awhile.
If you have Level 2 Engineering, building a dam and a scarecrow will allow you to farm.
If you have Level 2 Collections, making stews to feed your people will help too. You do need at least 10 food though to make a stew.
Level 2 Farming allows you to farm coconuts but I never bother with this, I think it's a bit of a waste.
I would collect mushrooms in the meantime and make building a dam a piority if you haven't already.
If you do have a farm, only let one person farm while the others all collect tech points or make eveyone farm at once and then put everyone back on Research.
Good luck and I hope you see lots of red mushrooms!
Edited by LadyCFII (03/04/07 07:15 PM)
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I play Virtual Villagers because Sims is too hard.