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Backyard nursery.

Not my image but nursing Japanese Maples seems to have potential. They run for hundreds to over a thousand dollars at plant nurseries despite every adult maple tree scattering countless baby saplings around itself in early spring. You can find the saplings growing out of suburban sidewalk like weeds. Just dig them out, transplant them, then raise them passively for 2 - 3 years in cheap appropriate sized potting containers you can get from any nursery for free by asking.

Even if only 20% of the saplings you plant survive that long you could easily sell them to landscapers or local small nurseries for $50 - $100 each depending on how big they got. That's an easy $1k - 2k a year if you only raise them for two years and sell twenty of them. By year three you could sell them for double the year two price. Just print some super cheap stickers or tags to make them seem legit. Landscapers will absolutely pay you for them so they can charge their client store price.