While there are some great projects underway, most are very small scale - just a few city lots at a time.I've worked with one on the East Side and in addition to growign vegetables in the summer, they have a hoop house for year-round cool-weather produce, a lot with fruit trees, a lot with chickens and goats and they purchased the old, abandoned corner store and turned it into a community center with a library, computers and meeting area.

Quick example: the inside or any apartment\house\office is never finished, meaning you get just raw walls, no paint, no doors, flooring, no anything, besides the windows, not even electricity, the electric cables are to be found somehere in the corridor and every owner gets it extended to his\her appartment.

In our local area, we have fruit packing house tours, four or five of the 21 California Missions are within an hours drive, visiting wine country and all the tasting rooms to our north (use a designated driver, please), there is Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park......All of the above are just the things in the United States. 

I had a garbage disposal and a guest put a pint of seeded fruit/berries down it. 

Raw land development is not for the inexperienced.

His raw and blunt posts are a refreshing addition to BP and will be missed.

A developer has approached me about borrowing $200,000 on raw land.

I just finished my first direct mail campaign for raw land or vacant land and I'm running into this exact same issue.

Plant fruit trees/plants in all rental properties, allow tenants to have half the fruit.  

Going after marketing by those with options and contracts to buy is the low hanging fruit of brokering without a license activities.