The Bosque Village was founded in 2004 on 80 acres of pine, oak, and madrone forest. We are off the grid, using no outside water or power. By adjusting our lifestyle we have enough power from solar panels and enough water from rain catchment. The solar panels also offer enough power to have internet using laptop computers. We are a space for artists, writers, meditators, exercise enthusiasts, and creative friends to enjoy. Our goal is to live with nature using minimal resources for maximum benefit.Living off the grid...
At the Bosque we have adjusted our life styles in order to live free of outside power and water. By conserving electricity and not using electrical heating or refrigeration, we survive comfortably with our relatively simple solar power system. For future members, the help is already in place to add more solar power to the community in order to accommodate more people.
We rely on rain water for the majority of our water use, and have over 100,000 liters of cistern capacity. By conserving water we sustain ourselves without relying on outside water sources. We do provide bottled drinking water for guests until we can improve our water treatment system. Our sauna helps us keep clean and use less water for showering.
We are eliminating our need for propane gas by relying on lorena stoves and a solar oven for our cooking and using solar hot water heaters.
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