With enough money, I would buy myself a small farm/market-garden, with a large wood and a local stream/river also coming into my property, the property preferably being in a cold-temperate climate or subarctic climate and isolated near mountains. I would have enough money to pay decently for 1 labourer/gardener/general-factotum who would look after the property/plants and animals while I was on holiday, including an underground greenhouse/personal abattoir/chilling-freezing room, various usually wild species such as deer or wild boar or moufflon etc. just wandering around the fenced property along with a few domesticated species such as chickens etc. I would grow easily enough to feed myself all year round and any extras I would sell off at local farmers' markets on a periodical basis. In Austria, the government is very easy-going on people who make and sell off a few items here and there, so no taxation involved unless I turned it all into a big business. Austria even allows no red tape if one produces only beer/perry/cider or wine, only for spirits. For all the above, I am sure I would need c.250,000 euros minimum plus 100,000 euros a year.
My brother already has something like the above. No farm per se, but a Norman mansion with a stream and very large garden indeed. He rents out much of the land to farmers, uses half the mansion as a wedding-venue from time to time, and Ireland gives him free money to plant trees all over his property as the British formerly wiped out all the forests during more rebellious times.He has no plans to make a lot of money as he wants to avoid red tape(and work) etc. But he makes enough in rent to pay for 2 of his Irish properties and that's great.Come to think of it, his other Irish property is on the coast in the wilds of Donegal, and is a much smaller, cheaper version.
