Building a Little Solar-powered House on the Prairie: Off-the-grid or Grid-tied?

![][1] A year ago, Mike Larsen and Linda Nelson left their beloved urban Minneapolis home and moved to the prairie in southeast Minnesota near Altura to live in a way more connected to the land. In this story, Mike writes about how they came to the decision to build their off-the-grid home. Off-grid or not off-grid—that is the question. Indeed, that was a

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