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Behind-the-Scenes Off-Grid Living: Real Desert Homesteading, Community & Freedom

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Behind-the-Scenes Off-Grid Living With Colquhoun Entertainment

If you’ve ever wondered what off-grid living is really like beyond social media highlight reels, you’re invited to join Brent and Melodie Calhoun for a raw and unfiltered look at everyday life in the New Mexico desert.

Every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 12 PM MDT, Colquhoun Entertainment hosts live behind-the-scenes discussions about off-grid living, homesteading, camping, music, and community building.

What Makes These Livestreams Different?

Many people see finished projects but rarely see the work, challenges, and unexpected moments that happen behind the scenes.

These livestreams focus on:

  • Real Off-Grid Living
  • Desert Homesteading
  • Self-Sufficiency
  • Community Building
  • Camping Life
  • Music and Creativity
  • Alternative Living

No scripts. No filters. No manufactured drama.

Just real people sharing real experiences.

Ask Questions and Share Knowledge

The livestreams are designed to be interactive.

Visitors can:

  • Ask Off-Grid Living Questions
  • Share Their Own Experiences
  • Help Others Learn
  • Discuss Homesteading Projects
  • Explore Alternative Lifestyles

Whether you’re experienced or just getting started, everyone is welcome.

Learn About the Muinntir Membership Program

Community is an important part of the off-grid lifestyle.

The Muinntir Membership Program offers additional opportunities to connect with the people, projects, and experiences that make up life at Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center.

More Than Just Off-Grid Living

Conversations often include:

  • Music Projects
  • Camping Opportunities
  • Desert Living
  • Sustainability
  • Freedom and Self-Reliance
  • Community Events

Every livestream is different because every audience brings new ideas and perspectives.

Join Us Live

If you’re looking for authentic conversations, practical off-grid knowledge, and a welcoming community, join us live and become part of the discussion.

The campfire is always open.

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Off-Grid Living in New Mexico: Ka-Hoon Campground, Desert Life, Music & Community

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🌵 Off-Grid Living at Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center

Welcome to the real world of off-grid living, desert homesteading, live music, and community connection hosted by Melodie and Brent Calhoun.

At Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center, life is built around freedom, creativity, survival skills, and gathering people who want something different than mainstream living.

Learn more:
www.plateauhamedecolquhoun.com

www.advocatusdiaboliandthegrimleaferband.com

🔥 What Happens at Ka-Hoon Campground?

Ka-Hoon is more than a campground—it’s a living desert experience hub.

🌿 Core Experiences:

  • Off-grid living demonstrations
  • Desert homesteading lifestyle
  • Community gatherings & storytelling
  • Music performances in natural desert settings
  • Survival skills and land-based living conversations

🏕️ Community Focus:

  • Real off-grid education
  • Shared land experiences
  • Music + storytelling nights
  • Connection to nature and freedom living

🎶 Music in the Desert Show

One of the main experiences at Ka-Hoon is Music in the Desert, a raw and immersive live performance series.

🎸 What You Get:

  • Live desert music sessions
  • Acoustic storytelling performances
  • Energy-driven creative expression
  • Community campfire atmosphere

🎤 Featured Project:

  • Advocatus Diaboli & the Grim Leafer Band
    • A desert-born music project blending storytelling, soul, and raw performance energy.

🌐 Muinntir Membership Program

The Muinntir Membership Program is designed for people who want deeper access into off-grid life and the Ka-Hoon community.

Benefits:

  • Behind-the-scenes content
  • Exclusive live sessions
  • Community interaction
  • Early access to events and updates

📅 LIVE SCHEDULE

🌵 Off-Grid Behind-the-Scenes (TikTok)

  • Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
  • 12 PM MDT
  • Hosted by Colquhoun Entertainment

🎶 Music in the Desert (TikTok)

  • Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
  • Hosted by Advocatus Diaboli

📺 YouTube Feature

  • Sunday livestreams on Colquhoun Entertainment

🧭 Who This Is For

  • Off-grid living enthusiasts
  • Tiny home & homestead lifestyle followers
  • Music lovers & live performance seekers
  • People interested in land freedom & alternative living
  • Survival & self-sufficiency learners
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Does Your Land Support Your Dream? Off-Grid Reality vs Expectations Explained

Ka-Hoon Campground

Welcome

Welcome to today’s Campfire Chat hosted by Colquhoun Entertainment.

This conversation is about something most people only realize after they buy land:

👉 Does your land actually support your dream?

Many people enter land ownership with a vision of freedom, sustainability, and off-grid independence—but reality often reshapes that dream in unexpected ways.

🌱 THE DREAM VS REALITY OF LAND OWNERSHIP

Most land buyers imagine:

  • Big gardens and food independence
  • Animals and livestock
  • Privacy and open space
  • Off-grid self-sufficiency
  • Workshops and creative freedom

But real land conditions often include:

  • Poor or rocky soil
  • Wind exposure and climate challenges
  • Water access limitations
  • Distance from supplies and towns
  • Infrastructure costs most people don’t expect

🏔 REALITY CHECK: NOT ALL LAND IS EQUAL

Even beautiful land can come with hidden challenges.

On our own mesa land, we experience:

  • Incredible panoramic views
  • Wide open space and freedom
  • Strong winds and dry conditions
  • Soil that requires constant adaptation

This doesn’t make the land “bad”—
it means the lifestyle must evolve with the environment.

🔄 THE SHIFT IN THINKING

Instead of asking:

❌ “What is my dream land?”

Ask this instead:

✔ “What kind of life do I actually want?”
✔ “Does my land support that lifestyle?”

This small mindset shift changes everything about land ownership success.

💬 QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

  • If you bought land today, what would you prioritize first?
  • Does your land support your dream—or challenge it?
  • What surprised you most after moving onto your property?
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Running a Campground While Having an Existential Crisis (Yes, It’s Off-Grid Life)

Ka-Hoon Campground

People sometimes imagine off-grid living as peaceful sunsets, birds chirping, and me gracefully watering plants in a linen dress.

Reality:
I’m answering emails, fixing something that broke, scheduling events, running a campground, posting on five social media platforms, and wondering why my brain feels like a browser with 47 tabs open.

We moved to the desert in October 2020 with a dream — not to get rich, not to build a resort, but to build a place. A place where people could come, breathe, exist, and not feel judged. A place that respects nature, recycles, upcycles, and tries very hard not to waste what the earth gives us.

We didn’t want elaborate.
We wanted sustainable.

Affordable events. Real community. Music, gatherings, conversations, and people sitting around a fire actually talking to each other instead of just scrolling.

The membership program?
We never planned that.

It happened because people kept asking:
“Can we stay longer?”

So we created a way people could be part of the land instead of just visiting it.

And now we’re starting something new — Off-Grid Campfire Chat.

We changed the name because we are not experts. Not even close.
We are people figuring it out in real time.

The Campfire Chat isn’t a class.
It’s a place.

Some people come to learn.
Some come to help others.
Some come because they feel alone and need to hear,
“Yeah… life is hard sometimes.”

Living off-grid doesn’t remove normal problems.
You still get tired.
You still doubt yourself.

You still get overwhelmed running a campground, an event center, and all the promotion that never takes a day off — even when your brain begs for one.

But the goal here was never perfection.

It was belonging.

If you want to learn, talk, vent, or just sit quietly and listen — you’re welcome.

Even if you never plan to live off-grid.

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Off-Grid Talk Live Every Morning | Learn Real Off-Grid Living at Ka-Hoon Campground

Ka-Hoon Campground
Off-grid Talk  (Offgrid Talk)

Living off-grid isn’t just solar panels and pretty sunsets — it’s real life, real challenges, and real community.

Every morning between 11 AM – 12 PM MST, join Off-Grid Talk streaming LIVE on TikTok (Colquhoun Entertainment). Hosted by Melodious & Advocatus Diaboli, this is a relaxed coffee-and-conversation livestream where anyone can ask questions, share experiences, or just hang out.

We broadcast from Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center (Plateau Hame De Colquhoun LLC) — a working off-grid desert homestead. You’ll see:

  • Solar power life
  • Water hauling reality
  • Tiny living
  • RV living
  • Homesteading struggles & wins
  • Daily off-grid routines
  • Behind-the-scenes campground life

You’ll also meet the Colquhoun pups, talk with real people living this lifestyle, and get honest answers — not influencer fantasy.

Whether you want to live off-grid, are already doing it, or just curious… you’re welcome.

Bring coffee. Bring questions. Or just listen.

Watch LIVE on TikTok: Colquhoun Entertainment

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Tonight in the Desert: Music, Chaos, and Off-Grid Mayhem with Advocatus Diaboli & Melodious

Ka-Hoon Campground

Join us TONIGHT at 5 PM MST for Music in the Desert, streaming live from the New Mexico desert at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun.

Hosted by Advocatus Diaboli and Melodious, this isn’t your typical livestream. Expect original music, wild covers, and a little desert chaos thrown in for flavor. You’ll also catch our Offgrid Talk, chats about off-grid living, and a peek at life at Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center.

Watch live on YouTube and TikTok via Colquhoun Entertainment, and join a community of people who love desert vibes, music, and spontaneous adventure.

Whether you’re here for the music, the off-grid stories, or the chaos that follows the dogs, there’s something for everyone.

Don’t miss it — 5 PM MST!

“Watch live weekly from Plateau Hame de Colquhoun in New Mexico — Music in the Desert hosted by Advocatus Diaboli and Melodious”

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Your Coworkers Think You’re Working… You’re Watching an Off-Grid Livestream Instead

Ka-Hoon Campground

Today at NOON MST, step away from the fluorescent lights, emails, and reheated leftovers and join us for a relaxed mid-day livestream — Off-Grid Talk with Melodious.

Broadcasting straight from the New Mexico desert at Plateau Hame de Colquhoun, this isn’t a podcast, and it isn’t a lecture. It’s more like sitting outside with friends while solar panels hum, coffee brews, and dogs supervise absolutely everything.

We’ll be talking about:
• real off-grid living
• solar life and daily challenges
• RV and desert living
• weird stories from the middle of nowhere
• whatever the dogs decide is important

Bring your lunch. Bring your coffee. Or just bring your need to mentally escape work for a little while.

Watch LIVE on TikTok:
Colquhoun Entertainment

Learn more about our music, shows, and events:


https://www.advocatusdiaboliandthegrimleaferband.com

Campground & membership info:
https://www.plateauhamedecolquhoun.com

We also host Music in the Desert livestream concerts weekly, featuring originals, covers, and a little bit of desert chaos.

Sometimes people tune in because they’re curious about off-grid life.
Sometimes they stay for the dogs.

Either way — you’re WELCOME here.

Live today — Noon MST

“Watch live weekly from Plateau Hame de Colquhoun in New Mexico — Music in the Desert hosted by Advocatus Diaboli and Melodious”

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Walking the Edge of the Mesa! 🌄 Offgrid Views of the Rio Grande Valley!

Ka-Hoon Campground

Walking the Edge of the Mesa – Offgrid Talk with Rio Grande Valley Views**

This morning’s **Offgrid Talk** took a whole new turn as I walked it right to the edge—literally. Living on top of the mesa at **Plateau Hame de Colquhoun** gives us some of the most breathtaking views in New Mexico, but today the Rio Grande Valley looked especially magical.

Out here, the desert air feels different. The wide-open sky, the crisp silence, and the endless stretch of the **New Mexico desert** bring a sense of grounding that you just can’t find anywhere else. As I hiked along the ridge, I kept thinking about how many people dream of living offgrid but never get to witness moments like this—moments where nature does all the talking.

Our offgrid life isn’t always easy, but mornings like this remind me why we chose the mesa. Whether we’re preparing for upcoming events at **Ka-Hoon Campground & Event Center**, working with **Colquhoun Entertainment**, or filming our **Offgrid Talk** episodes, this land always finds a way to inspire us.

From the top of the ridge, I could see the Rio Grande Valley stretching out far beyond the desert floor, a reminder of why so many people feel drawn to this place. The calm. The quiet. The freedom. It’s everything offgrid living is supposed to be.

If you’ve been following our Offgrid Talk series, expect more behind-the-scenes moments, desert adventures, paranormal notes from the West Mesa, and daily life updates right here from Plateau Hame de Colquhoun—where the sky is wide, the nights are alive, and the mesa always has something to say.

http://www.plateauhamedecolquhoun.com

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Caught on Camera! Our First Off-Grid Intruder at Ka-Hoon Campground 😱

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Caught on Camera: Our First Months Off-Grid and an Unexpected Visitor!

When we first moved to the desert, every day was a new challenge — and a lesson in staying prepared. During our early months at **Plateau Hame de Colquhoun (Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center)**, we installed a security camera before heading into town, knowing that trips weren’t quick and our belongings were left vulnerable.

Not long after, that camera paid off. We caught a visitor on video trying to walk off with something that didn’t belong to them! Thankfully, we had chained the axles of our trailer, and it was empty at the time — that same trailer later became what we now call **The Hut**, our compost toilet.

It was one of those off-grid moments that reminds you why preparation matters. Every experience — even the tough ones — helped shape who we are today.

Now, as we celebrate **five years off-grid**, we invite you to join us for our **5th Anniversary Open Mic Night** on **Saturday, October 18th**. Come in person, stay for a night or a weekend, or tune in live from home on our **Colquhoun Entertainment TikTok** profile.

Life off-grid isn’t always easy — but every story, every lesson, and every bit of resilience makes it worth it.

http://www.plateauhamedecolquhoun.com

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Our Last Visit Before Moving Off-Grid | Starting Life on 5 Acres in New Mexico!

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From Dreams to Reality: Our Last Visit to the Land Before Moving to New Mexico


Back in January 2020, we purchased our 5 acres of land here in New Mexico. At that time, we knew the journey wasn’t over—we still had to return to Minnesota, finish working at the center for the summer, pack up our lives, and prepare for the big move.

This video from our vault captures our very last visit to the property before heading back north. Looking back now, it’s fascinating to see the land before anything was set up, before the campground and event center, before the community that has grown around Ka-Hoon.

In the video, we mention the mountains in the area—but since then, we’ve learned we were mistaken about which ones we were looking at. It’s a reminder that this whole adventure has been a learning experience, step by step.

Throughout October, we’re sharing more of these “vault” videos, each one a snapshot of our journey. Some are from before we made the move, and some from after. It’s our way of showing the progress, the challenges, and the growth that brought us to where we are today.

Whether you’ve been following our journey from the beginning or just discovered us now, we invite you to join us each day as we share more from our archive. And if you’d like to see where we are today, make sure to follow our TikTok livestreams, YouTube channel, and check out our website for camping and event info.

http://www.plateauhamedecolquhoun.com


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