Also have some space where people can come and plant their own vegetables in return for volunteer time on the farm.The world needs this a lot more than more houses and storage units...

We only have one rental but last year we did get our tenants a Christmas card and plant. 

Prime valley floor  Rutherford bench etc.. set all time highsaverage price per ACRE 317,000  last year 270,000.  14.9% appreciation year over year.I know of some prime Ruthorford bench properties that eclipse 500k per acre.. now to be fair this is planted to award winning Cabernet grapes...

I joked that I could dump several loads of fill dirt out there, plant some palm trees, and create some islands which I could sell once the lake fills back up.

There is also an irrigation system with sprinklers and drip to water the lawn and plants.  

Hydro power generates more energy than is input into the power plant because the sun moves the water from the oceans uphill by way of rain.Petroleum produces more energy than is consumed in extracting, refining an transporting it because biological organisms captured the suns energy in the form of converting simple molecules into more complex ones.There are fundamentally only two sources of energy available to us with out current knowledge of physics - solar and radioactive decay.

Greetings,This is my first post.When the sale of the power plant I work in is final the old owners will give me my portable pension.

It speaks to the resiliency of the market.That said, it appears that Fresno is less resilient than the total CA market and the US as a whole.Here is the unemployment rates of each:You can see that Fresno consistently has higher unemployment per-capita than CA and the national rate.Usually, you want to select a sub-market that is beating the macro-market.

It almost looks to me that the row of plants on the right hand side could be part of the problem .

Hiring him to redesign the landscaping or plant several new trees is a CE.