I notice alot of players often say you don't need L3 farming but I disagree - even though technically the crops provide sufficient food if you have less than 15 population, the problem is you need to babysit them alot when they have limited food because they grow weakened alot when food is scarce, and then I find myself making the stew to restore their health every few hours.

Plus you can't expand your village to more than 15 people if you don't have unlimited food yet.

So I try to get L3 farming as soon as I can, then I can increase population and get them going on the various projects because I don't have to worry anymore about them dying of starvation.

Sharon