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Make new clothes (mainly shirts, trousers, dresses and shoes). They will take them from the stockpiles and drop their old clothes on the ground or stuff them in cabinets they own.

Make extra stockpiles for clothes and sell the worn out stuff to the caravans.

Don't store your seeds in any general stockpile. There they will be stored in bags and then ten bags in a barrel.
To collect any further seed a hauler will move the barrel around your fortress, making access to the seeds temporarily impossible.

Make a small seeds stockpile next to your farm plots that accepts only seeds and zero barrels. Also, forbid seeds on any other food stockpiles. This will not stop the cancellation spam but make it less frequent. ^^

Also, if you (q)uery a stockpile there are some options for barrels and bins and options for giving and taking. So if you by accident hit "a" your stockpile setting switches from "Will take from anywhere" to "Will take from links only". Check that.
The options for barrels and bins change the number of allowed bins or barrels on a stockpile. (C -> minimum bins, V -> maximum bins, c decreases number by one, v increases number bei one; E - > minimum barrels, R - > maximum barrels, e decreases number by one, r increases number by one)

 If you create a new stockpile and don't choose a special kind, the default is animal stockpile which will have zero barrels and zero bins. So if you later set the stockpile to accept drinks and don't change the number for barrels to maximum, no drinks whatsoever will ever brought to this stockpile.
Food stockpiles in general should mostly have barrels set for maximum with some exceptions like seeds stockpiles.
Stockpiles for crafts and stuff should have their bins set to maximum.
Neither one needs wheelbarrows. Wheelbarrows are only useful for stone stockpiles, furniture and sometimes wood.

When you are in the menu of an active pasture and press N the game shows a list of all available animals, because you could choose any animal to be assigned to your current pasture. Animals that are already in another pasture have the symbol (white brackets and a green symbol) behind them.
If you scroll through the list and choose an animal for your current pasture (by pressing return) it will get a green symbol in front of it to show that it is marked to be pastured here.

Quarry bush is always good, also because the nuts can be eaten raw.
Although, it's easy to drown in quarry bushs if you don't watch the production chain. For new players it might be difficult to provide the many bags. Cooking lavish meals on repeat can help with that.

Generally I try to build small (2x2) farm plots for every plant I can grow. I start with 2x3 plump helmets, 2x2 for the other underground crops each. This is easily managable by two farmers.
Step by step I add later on (during the second year) small plots for the plants I have seeds of (by gathering and processing, milling or brewing) or bought seeds from the caravan.

Supported with a variety of eggs from my egg farm, chease and occasionally butchered surplus animals, fish and hunted prey I have never any problems feeding my dwarves. They are mostly extatic early on because of legendary meals and because I supply them with their favorite drink.

The jeweler's workshop really could use some revamp. That sort of micromanaging is damn painful.

 But, regarding the current glassmaker problem. Couldn't you just build a new workshop if you need something done and the other workshops are busy with manager orders? You can even reserve a workshop for a certain dwarf.

Yes, had that happen in one of my first fortresses. ^^

Well, then the other miner should dig a stair to his fellow. Can't be that difficult. ^^