Vermicompost paradise: 50 years building home tea farm by hand
David Lee Hoffman has spent 50 years building a composting compound where waste whether grey water from the kitchen or sanitation is cleaned by worms, plants, and filters, then reused in the personal garden. Water flows through moats and even a boat (which hides a 30foot column that taps into groundwater), and everything is powered by solar. Most of Hoffmans system isnt legal, according to his local county (Marin, California), and Hoffman has spent decades fighting the local government. TIMELINE: View of David Lee Hoffman s compound, The Last Resort, his personal home, and tea production facility: 00:10 Original property value: David paid 38K for it: 00:25 Visiting the chicken coop: 01:15 Boat pond reservoir, among his first structures in a property relying on circular water management: 02:00 30 feet well with solarpumped water: 02:20 The property s motto, as explained by David Lee Hoffman in 3 Eastern characters (he lived in Europe and in
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