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You don't need to harvest the food that you plant if you don't want to. The townsfolk will help themselves to the food you planted around the town when they're hungry, just as the peeps in VV and VF do. You'll need to make sure that there is always sufficient fruit or veggies planted, so they don't run out of food.

If you do harvest and sell the food, the townsfolk can obtain the food you sold at the General Store, but only on the day you sold it. It is profitable to sell food, but you also need to make sure that you sell enough food each day to feed all of the townsfolk, or they will go hungry and begin to starve.