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Pure peasants will always give you a net positive of food.

In that case there must be an imbalance between all your cohorts. Too many merchants or too many nobles vs required peasants will result in negative food since they consume food but don't produce it.

If it comes to that, feel free to bulldoze some houses, there is no penalty.

Thanks !

Its hard to help without a screen capture.

But it comes from two probable issues : 

1. The palisade isn't fully closed, check if the ground is green when you have the palisade tool selected

2. There isn't enough room where you want to place it, or it isn't along a road

Hello ! Yes Georges does nothing special, he just sticks around forever as your city evolves. He's a kind of mascot.