So, this message / failure to gather would pop up maybe once a day or every two days.  Now it happens practically every other time I interact with a plant/haystack.  Is the bug on my end?  Or is this happening to others as well?

It's rather annoying.  Not as annoying as having to listen to an epic themesong from the game as I'm doing mundane tasks, or my horse ceasing it's sprinting every minute as I travel, but, I feel that this shouldn't need to happen.

In bug section of forums: Invalid Gathering Time since patch