I love what you did with the jam theme!
The actual timer doesn't seem to be implemented properly. After being served an eviction notice, the same conversation repeats at the start of the day and the game continues past where the second deadline should be.
When you interact with the field in your farm, the game provides some helpful instructions including a mention that you can combine two items by selecting them at the same time, but it doesn't say how to do so. The game page explains that you can open your inventory by pressing "i", but once you start the game it blocks out the rest of the game page in a way that doesn't seem to be reversible like normal full-screen mode, and that information doesn't seem to available anywhere in-game. This led to me being stuck on the simple task of mixing wood ash with water to make lye for a very long time.