Helping our heroes, protecting our planet

Veterans Offgrid is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization seeking to restore a sense of purpose, community, sustainability, and peace to veterans in need. Our goal is to provide opportunities to achieve housing stability for homeless veterans, help prevent veteran suicide, and help veterans reintegrate with society through job skills training, relationships, and community. 

As the housing crisis grows across America, veterans are at greater risk of housing instability than ever, while the physical and behavioral health services they need are hard to access. On average, 17 veterans die by their own hand every day in the United States, and 1.4 million are considered at risk of becoming homeless.

Veterans Off-Grid has been building sustainable, off grid housing at our site since 2017, and have been farming in the desert in our NRCS-funded 1800 sq. ft. hoop house since 2021. A primary focus of our program is to provide training in green building, and with our initial projects we have brought veterans and the local community together to learn about and create sustainable housing and agriculture. As we grow, we intend to bring more focus to helping veterans gain access to conventional and alternative healing resources. 

We continue to expand our efforts with other non-profits in Taos County, NM, as well as University of New Mexico-Taos. We are happy to now collaborate with Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education on the Department of Veterans Affairs Together With Veterans program. 

This powerful network of partnerships with other organizations continues to fuel our mission to create veteran-led sustainable building and agriculture training programs, countywide behavioral health outreach and wellness programs, and community integration and support.

Read more about our accomplishments and future plans in our 2023 Executive Summary.