My advice: go to your state's extension website and look for a farm incubator project. Join up. Learn how to farm whatever it is you want to learn on that program, with the land they allocate to you. Then move way out in the styx where you can purchase 15+ acres and start a homestead there. To qualify for extension, you may need to work two years somewhere, so you can pick up a spot as a farmhand.
Once you live out in the middle of nowhere on your own homestead, you might as well be in the early 20th century. You can even begin to wean yourself off electricity if you build the right house.