they have a life most people wouldn’t understand. They are FREE.

Dunno why they are trying to depict off grid living as sad and unhealthy.
Off grid living is life.

At least they dont have any karens calling cops

I think this family is awesome! They will survive the chaos this country is heading towards while most will be crying and losing it. I just purchased land in San Luis Valley. I hope I get to meet them some day. I think veterans understand living without  and making things work better than most, but look how most us the world treats us. The Cooks have the family values we all should have. God Bless them.

Nowhere West of the Mississippi has more Appalachia vibes than the San Luis valley

Very skilled people to do this👍😁

I've lived poor, I've lived homeless, I've lived off-grid, I know for a fact you don't have to live trashy in any of those scenarios. All those poor kids being raised to believe it is ok to trash your property up, respect the land, all the junk can be scrapped, burned and buried.. Other than that, these people have it right.

I literally can not think of any reasons to have so many wolves

Wow I used to work at valley meat the butcher shop and I remember Kevin picking up all our scraps for his pack of dogs this is mind blowing!!!

Nothing wrong with them living the way they want.. they look at peace.!

With that being said, I would say just clean up the place a bit and that’s all.

Lord have mercy.

Guys please dont worry about the kids, one of them is my friend and she is perfectly fine

I grew up in the Valley, I love it there.

Kids deserve a better future

I lived like this for a year and a half, moving this month. Some people can do it and are truly happy. I just can't! It's hard. I'm a city girl and used to having running water from the city and electricity. And be able to take as long as showers or baths as I wanted. This life is hard especially with children. My son is 3 now and it's not a life I want  for my son. The isolation is very hard. I'm used to seeing people and hanging out and going to malls restaurants go see a movie ect. Their is none of that when you live so secluded like this. Me and my family live in the mountains in Colorado. I moved out here because of my fiance and he waned to be close to his dad. I was a bit uneducated and unaware of how hard it  be. I feel like a fish out of water especially for a black girly girl. It's scary at night! Bears terrify me! I did it for my fiance, but I can't do it no longer!

It’s by choice if you’re happy where you are and what you are doing? Carry on!

I actually know these people, the little girl went to my school, has a cousin that's awesome

Living off the grid? Government aid? Doh! How does that work?

Both my parents were raised off the grid growing up. My mother in New Mexico & Father in Colorado. They learned hard work at an early age.  My parents chose to raise us in the State of California, they wanted more opportunity for us, to have things they didn't have growing up.  Every summer my parents took my brother's, sister's & myself, back to their roots,  showed us where they lived. Pretty interesting.

I grew up in the Valley.  I left in 1968 and will be returning in a few years.  I’m going to build a small 16’x48’ 1 bed 1 bath home.  I’ll be using solar power and the property I own now has a well and water rights.