100 Miles South of Salt Lake City, a New Type of Off-Grid Community

Operation Self-Reliance seeks to make the desert bloom with 200 new homes and agricultural production.

Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock, Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

DELTA, Utah—The big pickup truck went rolling down the dirt road, kicking up dust as Phil Gleason drove past workmen in hardhats and yellow vests digging a well for a new solar-powered home.

Miles away from any strip mall or cookie-cutter subdivision, the off-grid community known as Operation Self-Reliance bloomed with housing construction in the Utah desert.