In some fields, such as opera singing, you require only yourself, in a healthy state. If you wish to keep a hundred head of deer, you require at least a hundred acres of land, surrounded by a fence at least six feet high. Between the two extremes there is a multitude of possibilities for country enterprises.

At the very simplest you can make country-style produce, buying in all the raw materials and producing it in an urban kitchen or shed. You could make delicious raspberry jam from berries bought in a street market or you could make traditional furniture using wood bought from a do-it-yourself supermarket and polished with your own concoction of turpentine and beeswax (you can buy the beeswax, you do not even have to keep the bees).

If you have a variety of buildings at your disposal, say a few stables and a pole barn, your choice of enterprise widens to include the possibility of keeping livestock. Without the buildings but with a little land you can produce vegetables or fruit and keep bees and some chickens.

With a lot of land and buildings you have the widest choice of enterprises. This probably makes the choice all the more difficult; choice is easiest when you have only a few options.

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