We are strictly hobby beekeepers. Will probably just have around 10 hives. I cannot keep bees at my location and I know no one who would let me keep bees on any property.
I would scout the area for farms and knock on doors. I did that and got a Beeyard and then got two more Beeyards out of that location directly.
This fall, I knocked on three doors that had open land and two of them said yes. Of course, I had a jar of honey in my hand just to sweeten the pot along with a business card that I created on my PC.
They ask me about the setup and I tell them directly that I give a 1 pound jar of honey for each hive that they let me keep. Even though, several of my locations didn't make honey as I put them on at the end of the Honey Flow, I was glad to give them the honey as the payoff will come with this year's nectar flow.
I would have sworn that the third place would have said yes as they had a big sign in their front window - "stating No Farm, No Food" - I think it was a protest against a big Walmart development. I should have pointed out to him that No Bees, No Food.
Good Luck and seriously start knocking. You won't regret it once the first person says yes. I even think that someone on beesource put an ad on Craigslist and got multiple locations out of that ad.