For a completely different type of business opportunity, someone with a bit of land and a penchant for animals might consider raising goats and renting them out as a viable business to begin.

Here's a recent article from GOOD magazine about someone doing just that in Seattle. The company, Rent a Ruminant, rents goats to help clear land, but goats can also be a moneymaker in other ways. Goat milk and goat cheese are popular artisan products that goat owners could make and sell at farmer's markets or local groceries.