#grownostr Question:
What business would you start assuming you have 10 hours a week to work on it?
Details: I have a 1/2 acre rural/urban fringe property within 45 min of 2 million+ people on a major traffic artery (highway) and about 1 million within 20min. It has water (city), electric, internet and a 700 Sq ft metal building with concrete slab floor. (no bathroom / sewer / septic /no insulation /hvac). I may have a somewhat attentive spouse with more time as well.
I'm Zapping all ideas!
Follow your passion, is probably my best advice. What do you love enough to do often, but not so much that doing it too often will mean you start hating it.
Create multiple income streams. Brew and sell compost tea, biochar sales, woodcrafts, it all depends on what YOU want to spend your time on.
I should add, there is no zoning, not within any city limits/ETJs. And ZAPS may not be till tomorrow on my work computer.
A little difficult to answer without knowing your current skills or how much initial investment your planning on, but I'll throw out a few ideas.
If you can weld, welding shop.
If your skills are more towards woodworking, get a half decent tablesaw and start making cutting boards, wooden signs, and small crafty type stuff. It's amazing what people will pay for little stuff like that, which require minimal skill and time to make, and materials can often be sourced from scrap lumber.
Since you're close to an urban areas, power washing, window cleaning, or Handyman work.
Fighting/sparing club with betting using bitcoin.
Have you considered glass etching? My dad retired some years ago, and as a hobby/side hustle, he bought a sand-blasting cabinet to etch glass. He does ornaments, mugs, pie plates, etc... His wife will make the stencils on the cricut, then he makes the items that she sells at craft fairs. It's not a full-time income, but I think it would be a worthwhile addition to as a skill set in addition to making some money. And with your 700sqft building, it would not take up much space, so you would have room to spare. Being that close to a larger city, I'm sure there are some farmer/crafter markets that you could attend.
You could also use the same cabinet for regular sand-blasting jobs, gear-heads are always trying to refurbish old parts.
Microgreens would be a great start. Could be done year round in your garage and you’d only have to add heat to a small grow tent over some wire racks. 10 hrs a week would be plenty to start, but it could easily scale to a full time thing with that size shop. Much easier to control variables than to try something outside and very little capital up front, and very fast ROI. Culinary mushrooms would be similar, but a bit more upfront investment and longer learning curve.
Well “it depends” #tspc
What type of city
How much are trying to gross
What are you passionate about
Idea #1 of about 1.5 million
Me I would start a handmade goat milk soap company
Let’s the wife be very creative and have the goats she wanted and they mow the grass so I don’t have to
We have a ton of small shops and markets with handmade goods that all the Karen’s just love
FYI, its the Alamo city.
Maybe we should start a nostr content management system. Where all the data is stored locally on owned relays and backed up remotely without servers .. I’ve got a lot of digitizing equipment so people can turn thier paper records into data, I suppose I could say we have a lot of experience scanning because we actually have the worlds record sized staple ball .. there is not a Riplies one , yet, but we have it on record setters site . And the one on there is like 20% of what it is today . Unfortunately I had several customers vanish and leave me with the stuff I was storing from them ..fortunately the mass of it was old X-rays .. I juts finished lost wax casting and a couple metal and jewelry classes .. so now , I’m extracting silver , which ve got a finance , some torches, lots of ingots and I made my first bronze sculpture 
It started out as wax
