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Probably one of your greatest source for NM would be Mike Reynolds, he has been battling for years trying to be able to build alternative homes, if you haven't seen this, it's a good watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_y8XWgRECE

here is his website, he might be of some assistance for specifics for NM

http://earthship.com/

also, taxes, laws and such are very dependent on where you are looking to buy the land, each county and town will be different. When we first moved to Maine, we bought land in a small town called garland, there was no code enforcement and the town had nothing as far as building codes, only requirement was the house had to be over 800 square feet, so we built a 20x20 two story cabin. I need to see if I have pictures around here somewhere of that.

I would figure out the smallest footprint the area you are looking at requires for building and I would build that, then slowly add out buildings for storage, guest rooms etc, these will be considered sheds and will lower your tax requirement rather than building say a 2400 sq ft home