I share the same interests. I've always been big on growing my own food, but a few years ago we met a man that has literally been building a food garden community. The moment land goes up to market in this neighborhood, if it touches his properties, he'll buy it solely to continue extending his jungle. The houses on the properties just end up being side projects to remodel, but instantly we get building Hugelkulturs and aquaponic ponds for fish on whatever land he gets. Then in goes 100+ fruit bearing tree's, everything from guava, starfruit, papaya, avacado, mango, banana, peaches, black sapote, montinga, dragon fruit cacti, jackfruit... the list goes on. In between we layer with nitrogen fixers, moringa's, bay varieties, and whatever hearty herbs and seasoning shrubs. I figure in the last two years, we've grown from 2.3 acres to probably close to 6 acres worth of city block. Our .35 acre lot we live on has 119 fruit bearing tree's on it as of right now. The highlight of the lot though was the two car garage/shoppe... that holds no cars.
We're located on the space coast of Florida, so even the cut yard waste grows.