Buying Land

 Affordable land invariably comes only far away from major cities. Knowing how to buy it is not something taught in school.
Some places can provide you portals for searching for available land, however, you may need to find the local newspapers to find many plots. Some of the portals I've seen include:

http://www.landwatch.com/
http://www.landandfarm.com/
http://www.landsofamerica.com/america/

Selecting your land will be the greatest challenge. Good luck!

Metaspaces vs. Meatspaces: Great Communities to Consider

These are arranged in quality and specificity. All of these communities work like specialized overlay networks on the Internet, helping people interact with other people who would never know of the other's existence in meatspace.  Commenting on other people's pages via blogger and disqus systems aren't as flexible, but like knowing where the "hot spots" are in meatspace to meet other people, it's worth knowing about other places on the Internet. Great meatspaces would be places like farmer's markets and city markets where you get the effects of many different people meeting in the same place with a common interest and networking.

Metaspaces

• http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums
• http://www.reddit.com/
• http://twitter.com/

Meatspaces

• http://www.thecitymarket.org/ Kansas City, MO
• http://www.santafefarmersmarket.com/ Santa Fe, NM
• http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/ Portland, OR
• http://www.seattlefarmersmarkets.org/ Seattle, WA
• http://www.omahafarmersmarket.org/ Omaha, NE

Do you a metaspace or meatspace recommendation? Leave a comment!