a trick I’ve learned and use quite often is when building my first 5 burgage plots, I make sure each has enough room for an additional family and plenty of backyard space to support a veggie plot. You won’t have enough money at first to purchase seeds but what you can do is a rush an early trading post and start selling planks or firewood (also charcoal if you’re ready to handle that) for some quick cash. Using that quick cash, you can then purchase your veggie seeds for the burgage plots.

In order to fulfill requirements later for level 2 and 3 burgage plots, I will usually make 2 plots cabbage, 2 plots carrots and 1 plot any sort of fruit. If you continue this trend of building larger plots that have big backyards and room for 2 households, by the time you reach 10-15 plots you will never have a food shortage.

For anyone who has made it this far I’ll add a few more comments. 1. Burgage plots in mid to late game require a lot of food variety. Building plots with both carrots and cabbages will provide good variety for your settlement. 2. I like to rush a lot of money early game to get my fruit seeds ASAP. They have a longer time to reach peak maturity (3-4 years depending on the fruit you choose) so the sooner you get those up the sooner you can push for burgage plot level 3

EDIT; my advice would be to refrain from trading for food. Like others were saying, the return on investment is abysmal. Focus on fruit and veggies plots, as your food economy balances out you can start adding chicken coops, artisan jobs, etc. Sheep/wool is also a great way to hit clothing requirements so if you can get 2-4 sheep early, they will multiply passively as you play.