$1000 house. How to build yourself one. Lots more photos at that link, as well as the budget:

$175 Home made tools (compass, stands, pounders, etc.)
$150 Plywood arch forms (reusable)
$120 Chicken wire
$150 Professional backhoe excavation (2ft. deep x 16ft. diam.)
$135 Straw for plaster/cob (20 bales)
$190 4-point barbed wire (2 rolls)
$150 40 tons reject sand (delivered)
$250 1000 bags (delivered)

TOTAL $920

Background:

In June 1997, more than one hundred natural building apostles and acolytes — professional builders, architects, academicians, and budding owner-builders — gathered at the Black Range Lodge in the tiny New Mexican hamlet of Kingston for the third annual "Natural Building Colloquium - Southwest." For one intense week, they traded ideas, learned new skills and fueled a nascent natural building movement.

Links on the left include other projects -- this one is the Honey House. If this interests you, you might start under "The Art" with An Overview of Natural Building Techniques;

This site feels like a part of the Whole Earth Catalog distributed to the Web -- that more informative subtitle was "Access to Tools. "

The Honey House looks like a nice place in which to live simply.

Although the story mentions options for a variety of climates, they might not include a New England winter in the range.

You might have to move to someplace warm and beautiful.