Desperate for food?
Try this trick.
If your coconut tree says 8 or under you put all available adults on the trees and all will collect a coconut and put it in the pot, lots of 8 point coconuts.
Emily the six year old discovered this trick.

Thanks for that. Same thing happens on the farm. When there are 10 veg left, put everone on harvesting and they will all collect 10 each.

Worked with the berry bush in VV1, too -- the count doesn't change until one of the villagers puts the food in the bin. Used this trick to save a couple of villages now!