Ask Savage Peanut: where would you buy a farm?

Not a farm farm, really, but five or six acres where Rachel can get a tractor and grow stuff as a hobby.  I had kind of pegged this as a "distant future" goal but Rachel tells me it is not too soon to start thinking about this.  

Thinking out loud:

• Alaska.  No, seriously, not all of it is artic.  Juneau, for example, doesn't really get that cold, barely dipping below freezing for most of the winter.  Hobby farming looks possible.  "Households throughout the region, especially in more remote areas, raise productive vegetable gardens including potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, radishes, peas and beans."  There do seem to be at least some properties in that size range, although I get the impression that it's not great place to look for land from the internet.  With an area the size of Delaware but a population of 40,000, there's got to be plenty of room.
• New England area: In general, I'm not interested -- I still hate the East Coast weather, and land there is about as expensive as you can find in the USA.  There might be some exceptions, though; New Hampshire, for instance, is less population-dense than several Southern states that aren't known for being crowded, and about 1/8 as dense as New Jersey, the most crowded.  NH is also the home of The Free State Project, which I find interesting as a frustrated classical liberal.  (Of course, having to link to Wikipedia to describe your political inclination is a Big Red Sign that you're well out of the political mainstream, but given how clearly both of the mainstream parties have demonstrated near-total incompetence over the last 20+ years, I can tolerate not being part of the crowd.)
• The South.  Okay, the weather still sucks, but other than that I don't know much about the region.  What makes Southern states stand out?
• Utah.  It's still a great place to raise kids but if we're going to be off in the middle of nowhere I don't know that a lot of the reasons for that are going to matter so much.  Also, we've been here a long time already, and haven't been able to convince any of either of our immediate families to join us, so maybe it's time to try somewhere else.  On the other hand, Utah is big enough geographically that, at least to someone from the East coast, Southern or Western Utah might as well be different states than the Wasatch Front.
• The Pacific Northwest.  Washington is too damp for me, but Oregon is less so while still being very mild.  Could be a possibility.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?