Quote Originally Posted by Zarax
Maybe balancing the farms with negative growth bonuses (even though it may look odd) could work, would require some balancing though...
Negative bonuses will only cancel out positive bonuses. If a building has negative population bonuses and the town has no positive population bonuses on any other buildings, the negative will do nothing. And the growth increase given out by farms is not considered a population growth bonus by the game engine and a negative population growth bonus will not effect it.