Welome to our website, dedicated to our project to live off the electric grid. We're putting everything on the line so that we can build our own, fully functional home in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert. Our finished homestead will use only renewable energy and NO help from the national electrical grid. This desert is beautiful, free, expansive, and awesome, but it is also dangerous and unforgiving. The nearest hospital is over 60 miles away and we are living side by side with tarantulas, rattlesnakes, black widows, kising bugs, coyotes, wolves, javelina, and numerous other dangerous flora and fauna. And let's not forget the intense sun, heat, wind, and flash floods.

Please watch our video blogs, chronicalling this adventure from the first exploratory trip to our finished home. You can learn from our mistakes and successes while watching from the comfort of your own home (or library, or school). We'll be roughing it with backpacks, tents, and campfires until our main structure is up, but you can enjoy your oil heat, gas stove, and electric lighting (as long as you don't mind paying those bills!).

Stay tuned for updates on our Great Adventure! Join our mailing list to find out first about new video posts, photos, and blog entries by sending an email with "off the grid in Texas" in the subject line to sara@allenergies.net.