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Electricity Is a Luxury. Community Is Necessary.

Resilient communities don’t happen automatically. They are built one choice at a time.
Electricity Is a Luxury. Community Is Necessary.
Service trucks line up after a snow storm in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 16, 2021. Ron Jenkins/Getty Images
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Every time a winter storm approaches, the news falls into a familiar rhythm. Warnings repeat on a loop. Headlines grow more ominous by the hour.

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.