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Help create the resilient high plains homesteading community that you want to live in.

FYREshire is an crowdsourced community-development project for families, builders, growers, tradespeople, professionals, and practical problem-solvers interested in food and water security, mostly off-grid, rural living, recreation, and community in the high plains of the Texas Panhandle.

  • Welcome to Texas! Don’t chase the armadillos!
  • Texas loves its longhorns.
  • We definitely want chickens!
  • Should our community have an equestrian component?

What is FYREshire?

The FYRE in FYREshire stands for Find Your Rural Escape. We are working to create a private, membership-based homesteading and resilience community on the Texas High Plains. The concept includes family homestead areas, a town square/community core, food production, water and waste systems, business and support zones, RV and cabin guest facilities, and thoughtful plans for emergency readiness and community governance. Get out of the city and sprawling suburbs and see what we have to offer.

What makes this different

This is not a subdivision sales campaign. The goal is to build a durable working community where people can live full-time or part-time, participate in developing the community full-time or part-time, build useful skills, create businesses, and contribute to practical systems for food, water, shelter, power production, communications, commerce, security, and mutual support.

Who should join the list

We are looking for serious folks and families who want a credible path toward resilient rural living. People that are interested in helping to shape our concept before formal membership officially opens. Many areas of knowledge and skills will be necessary including homesteaders, farmers, construction workers, medical professionals/first responders, mechanics, welders, electricians, planners, engineers, scientists, and teachers. People with organizational skills including entrepreneurs, project managers, veterans, lawyers, and investors would also be helpful.

Vision & Principles

The vision is to create a family-oriented High Plains community built around mutual support, useful skills, entrepreneurial spirit, and long-term resilience. A place to live, learn, build, work, and belong.

  • Principle 1: Golden rule
  • The number one rule for our community is the Golden Rule. Treat others as you would want them to treat you. The Golden Rule is the fundamental ethical principle of reciprocity. The community will be private and membership-based. It will operate lawfully within the laws of the State of Texas and the United States of America and will benefit to the residents of the community.
  • Principle 2: Affordability
  • The goal is to keep the community engaged and as affordable as possible through member-driven volunteerism and participation, phased infrastructure development, some commonality of designs, shared facilities for certain aspects of the community, and practical design choices.
  • Principle 3: Good governance makes good neighbors
  • The community will need clear rules, defined member rights, conflict resolution processes, and plans for normal operations and contingency plans to ensure that we are good neighbors to each other as well as being good neighbors to nearby landowners and surrounding communities. The higher the trust in a society, the less rules are necessary.
  • Principle 4: Entrepreneurial spirit
  • The community should create jobs and grow businesses that employ residents, support and grow the community, and further community goals.
  • Principle 5: Community before crisis
  • Stuff happens. Tornadoes, fires, floods, you name it. The strongest preparedness plan is a smoothly functioning community before an emergency happens. Trust, governance, work routines, skills, and relationships must be built into the community. Having trusted people who already know how to work together is important. We believe that the key elements of resilience should be designed into everyday life. Food production, composting, water storage, waste handling, storm sheltering, power production and energy redundancy, communications, and community capabilities have to be accounted for.

“Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.“

– Henry Ford
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