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Three diverse pioneers embrace off-grid living, battling personal demons while crafting extraordinary homes that redefine freedom and resilience.
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Just north of the Mexican border in Terlingua, Texas lives a lone cowboy in a house the size of a dorm room. He grows his own food, bathes with rainwater and washes his clothes with a bicycle. A more modern off-gridder in Nederland, Colorado built a mountaintop masterpiece using two shipping containers and heats this incredible home using the sun. And on the outskirts of Taos, New Mexico, a family of four lives off the grid with virtually no utility bills in an "Earthship" built from tires collected from the dump with dirt insulation and an indoor plant filtration system.
Steps away from the ocean in Santa Cruz, a fun family of five built the ultimate California dream home.... from straw bales. This cutting edge pad is decorated with fallen trees and has a trampoline chicken coop for the kids. A more traditional duo in West Chazy, New York live off-grid in a unique home...with bottles for windows, logs for walls and a roof made of grass. Head to Denver, Colorado, smack dab in the middle of the city, where a snow worshiper has built a super-modern four-story home out of old bleachers and its completely powered by the sun.
All across the country, Americans are getting back in touch with the wild, walking away from modern day conveniences and living on the edge. We'll meet three very different homeowners who've taken on the challenges of living off-the-grid by creating fantasy homes using ingenious solutions to necessities like electricity, plumbing and heating. Whether it's using the sun to power their home or rainwater to take a shower; these modern-day pioneers have discovered ways of living off the land and getting by with less. Homeowners give a tour of each unbelievable home and share stories behind why they've chosen this life.