Did you see Return of the Jedi as a child and wish you could hold up in the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the middle of the forest , but your family unit and friends would all be connected in a community ? pretend what : now that exists .
Five years ago I was favorable enough to go visit Finca Bellavista in southern Costa Rica . At the time , it was a big chunk of rain forest with the skeletons of a pair barren - bones social system built . Today , it is a internet of the most ornate and beautiful treehouses one could possibly imagine in the middle of of the most beautiful blank space in the public . It was get going by Matt and Erica Hogan , and we ’ve stupefy Erica on the line from 1 pm to 3 premier EST today , quick to answer all of your burning questions about this awe-inspiring office .
Here are a few questions just to get us start :
What is Finca Bellavista?
Finca Bellavista is a treehouse community in Costa Rica . This is the cosmos ’s first truly arboreal vicinity , which is also off the power system . Our community also materialize to be locate in one of the most epic options conceivable — the semi - tropic rain forest . It ’s a real life ‘ Ewok Village ’ …
How did Finca Bellavista start?
Matt go on a breaker trip to Costa Rica in 2006 and really felt drawn to the Southern Zone . He call and ask me to come down from Colorado to research with him , as we were interested in discover a little pickup in the tropics . Mind you , the idea was to buy something modest and bare ! Matt looked through tons of list , and settled on a short list to explore on my twenty-ninth birthday . At the end of a steep 4×4 route in the middle of apparently nowhere , we macheted a track through a snarl of weeds to the edge of a river and explore about 100 chiliad into the property . It was so surreal to be there – like being in a secret internal park . look back , there was something wizardly that spoke to us and draw us in .
That Nox , we brainstorm ways we could afford the initial country purchase of 62 acres . We both knew it was bigger than what we want or could afford , yet we felt compelled to find a mode to save it from deforestation , as it was being marketed as a timber harvest time site . It seemed a shame to destroy such a sacred distance and it gave a sense of importunity to our decision on purchase it . I pondered out loud about build a treehouse because the trees were so big , I then wondered if friends or other masses might be interested in operate in on the land purchase to make it financially feasible . I then envisioned other hoi polloi building treehouses and associate them with bridges and ziplines , and mention how cool it would be to
build an Ewok village like the one in Return of the Jedi …
What kind of technology do you guys use to make this happen?
For better or worse , we rely entirely on our IPhones and the regional 3 G sign to plug into to the cyberspace , run our businesses , and stay in touch with our global community . We telecommute from the treetops , which is a moderately new thing to experience . The possibility of a monkey swinge from a vine when you are on a Skype group discussion call with someone in Tokyo or New York City can surely make things interesting !
We are also 100 % off - power grid , which always needs a kind of technological innovation . We make our electricity on - web site ( currently solar , but a hydro facility is in the planning stages ) , but to be reliable , its difficult to stay on top of the global trends and melioration from here .
All mightily , mob , have at it in the Q&A below !
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