What can I do with an Acre?

[BrightJadeTiger]

I looking for ideas.
We have an acre of garden land to the side of our house, which is unused. I'd really like some clever mumsnetters to suggest some money making ideas to put it use, everything and anything will be considered!
We have potentially 6k we could spend developing it in to something, so not enough to build on it but enough to potentially put storage/garage on it. We live a 3min walk from a train station and 3min drive from the M1 if that helps.

Thank you all in advance

Dog walking field?

Definitely a dog walking field as pp said. But make it a good one, some are awful.

Fruit trees, chickens for free range eggs, hives for honey.

Ooh, I'd love an acre! I'd be running a market garden, with chickens, bees, fruit and veg. And maybe a small shop/cafe.

Is there anything nice to do in the area? You could stick a yurt on it and rent it out either as accommodation or to host craft workshops.

Dog walking field

Allotment and space for chickens to sell veg and fresh eggs

Plant apple trees and get a cider press

I've never heard of this, do people really pay to walk their dogs?! Could this be a London thing?

These are lovley ideas but I'm not sure I'd get very far in my area, there is a industrial estate within eyeshot and it's more B&M than Waitrose if you catch my drift haha, plus I need something that wouldn't need much day to day maintenance as both me and my partner work full time and have small children.

Ideas we have floated include, storage space, a air B&B type thing as other poster has said and possibly a workspace for someone (hairdresser ect) that would bring in a rental income, just trying to think of the best thing to build. Has anyone seen those shipping container pop up home things?

I'd love someone like you to rent my acre!! 😂

Not just a London thing. It’s more to give dogs a chance to run about, off lead.

https://runfreedogfields.co.uk/

We pay £11 an hour occasionally to let them all have a good run about rather than a long on lead walk which we usually do. The field has agility equipment, a shelter, picnic tables. We are rarely there a full hour. Build it and they will
come as the movie says!

£6k won’t get you far if you are talking about any construction, sorry to disappoint.

In our area they are called freedom fields. It's very popular. Gives the dogs somewhere safe to run

Sheep. They will.keep the grass down and if you buy a rare breed you could breed from them and sell, notwithstanding meat and fleece from any kept.

Could you buy a marquee and rent it fkr events?

Caravan and campervan storage?

Caravan park or tents.

I’d love an enclosed dog field to let mine off to run, one is a rescue and she wouldn’t deliberately run away but off the lead she would just keep walking and I have no idea if she’d come back if she saw something more interesting. The nearest one to me is an hour away in the car.

allotments

My dog used to love the freedom field near us. It had old tyres and benches, a muddy pond. There were picnic benches in the corner and you could buy coffee from a little shed!

parking for the station

But I think people are overestimating how big an acre is. We are on 0.7 acres and it's not huge. Deffo not big enough for sheep (well you could have 2 or 3 maybe)

A dog walking field for private hire. Some agility equipment, a picnic table etc. you will have to put in very good fencing plus but a dog poo bin and pay to have it emptied. There are several near us. The best one has a system where you hire it for 55 minutes which allows for a changeover without the dogs having to meet each other.

This is actually really great, I like the activity run ones with the obstacle course, this might be a winner THANK YOU!

Yes I was noticing this but all ideas welcome and I though maybe I could scale a few back 🤷🏼‍♀️ even the dog field might be a bit ambitious on an acre, I'll have to check out the competition nearby 😂

Great advice thank you!

I was just about to say this.

People without a garden would love this