There’s a common image people carry in their heads — the homesteader, miles from town, lantern on the table, no phone in sight. It’s romantic. It’s also mostly wrong. Today’s off-grid families are ...

With the right solar panel setup and battery storage, many homeowners can operate completely independently from the electrical grid, which is exactly what one ranch family in Tennessee decided to do.

"The problem is they're, you know, geared towards selling land." ...