I support the view that farming meant hard work, the end of the Eden. Contemporary research among tribes in hard places like the Kalahari desert (and elsewhere) show that even under such extreme conditions, they need about 2-3 hours a day for the gathering alone, and even then, they only use a quarter of all the plants available!
When farming arrived, people had to work about 10 hours a day, including the separate gathering FOR the animals they domesticized!!