Vermicompost Utopia: 50 years building off grid Tea Homestead

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 ponds, moats, and even a boat (which hides a 30foot column that taps into groundwater), and everything is powered by solar, using a series of 12volt pumps. Most of Hoffmans system isnt legal, according to his local county (Marin, California), and Hoffman has spent decades fighting the local government. TIMELINE: David s compound, The Last Resort, his home and tea production: 00:10 Original property value: David paid 38K for it: 00:25 Visiting the chicken coop: 01:15 Boat pond reservoir, early structure in a property relying on circular water management: 02:00 30 feet well with solarpumped water: 02:20 Property s motto, as explained by David Lee Hoffman in 3 Eastern characters (he lived abroad for years at a