This is a fantastic program and something I would love to see grow larger. We have sooooo much vacant land in this city how great would it be to put it to productive use. Let people know about it and at the same time be able to create potential for jobs. As we constantly develop our farmlands into subdivisions and highways we are going to eventually hit a breaking point where land no longer is cheap and plentiful. And it is not only physical land but biologically productive lands. Much less of our land area can actually be used for farming that the land we do have should almost be sacred. The US's population is projected to reach 400 million in only 50 more years. You take that along with our rate of sprawling and some scientists have reported that in those 50 years the US will no longer have the land capacity to feed itself. We will have become a net importer of food instead of an exporter which is what we are now.

Being able to bring these areas into a productive use not only is sustainable but it is smart because we wont need to "import" as much food into our region. Granted this is only 7 parcels and a couple people running it but it is seems like an idea that has real legs.