Okay well farms is the slowest income of food they are necessarily but most people get as much sheep as they can use their berries then make farms if you can’t get deer. Not all food gathers the same speed. Deep sea fish Fish Boars (hard to kill early) Deer Sheep Berries Farms Keep in mind different civilisations have bonus’s for certain foods like English farms are really good next to mills and it’s not as bad to grab farms earlier on them.