Want To Live In Paradise? His website advertises “seeking caretaker ASAP”, someone “wanting to get away from it all and live a simple lifestyle”.

This video was posted on 26 April 2020 and has received 1.1Million views since it’s posting on Youtube but In 1968, Charles Bello and his wife, Vanna Rae, first moved onto 240 acres of redwood forest looking to live a simpler life off the land. They had spent their meager savings to purchase the land so the two of them got to work, building their home themselves. Their first home was a panelized A-frame structure that they erected in 5 days. The total cost was $2,800.

The property is a half-hour drive down a hand-made dirt road and it was bare land when they arrived so Charles and Vanna Rae built their entire infrastructure: roads, bridges and went decades without refrigeration nor phones (they eventually installed PV panels and cabling for phone lines). After 15 years in the A-frame, they built a cabin in the woods, and there they lived for a decade until the trees began to block out their views. 

In 1991 Charles (who once apprenticed under famed architect Richard Neutra) designed the Parabolic Glass House. With a curvilinear wood roof and two curved walls of windows, the home feels enveloped in trees. Charles and Vanna Rae built it for $8,500 with the timber they milled themselves, using salvaged materials for everything from doorknobs to stoves. The couple relied on photovoltaics, solar thermal and gas for power, and a dug-in greenhouse attached to the home provided much of their food.

 By canning and preserving, they could go for months without going to a grocery store. Their two boys were homeschooled. The couple supported themselves selling Christmas trees. Nearly all the old-growth trees on the property were logged in the early 20th century, but Charles has spent the past half-century restoring the land. He and his wife set up the Redwood Forest Institute in 1997 to manage and preserve the forest. He has carefully selected 1,000 trees to be preserved for 2 millennia as the next generation of old-growth.

 Now, 87 years old and a widower, Charles is determined to find successors; he hopes to find three couples who want to settle on the property (currently worth about 4-6 million dollars) in exchange for continuing as stewards of the land. He is currently building camping guest houses that he hopes will help fund the enterprise. His website now advertises “seeking caretaker ASAP”, someone “wanting to get away from it all and live a more simple down to earth lifestyle”.

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