If you don't mind long winters, where I live (the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) would meet your criteria. Taxes here are not bad, and you can buy a house on 10 acres for quite a bit less than in many other parts of the country. We definitely get snow, and the winters are long. You can grow a nice vegetable garden here if you know what you are doing, and select short-season varieties of things like tomatoes and squash. I've been growing a big vegetable garden here most of my life, and I get plenty of fresh veggies. There are no big cities up here, and the towns are small (many are less than 5000 people). We have one stop light in the town where I live. Nice friendly people here, for the most part. LOTS of trees (we have two National Forests here, each over a million acres, and also lots of State Forest Land). Lots of lakes here too, and the water quality is generally good.
I love it here from about early May through late October. I even enjoyed the winters here for a long time, but as I got older, I did not enjoy them as much anymore. So now we head south for 2 1/2 months every winter, and I could actually stay down there longer. But if you can handle the long winters, you might really like it here.