Welcome from Texas! Happy to have you here. You don't have to have a thousand acres to be here, lots of people have just their backyard and still reach for their dreams, just like you are doing.
We lived mere blocks from City Hall, downtown, at our old house. I tried to live the country life all I could, had chickens in the backyard and a garden in the front yard. LOL We moved here to 8 acres 6 years ago. Our place was a HUD repo, have you looked at repo's?