- When you come to a new place,
And even though I didn't relocate,
I grew up here.
I think it's always important
to take into consideration who was
on this land before you.
In Hawaii,
that's the most important thing you can think about,
whether you're visiting for a day,
a year or your lifetime.
Aloha, my name is Alison Teal
and I wear many coconut hats.
I'm an explorer,
a conservationist,
an environmentalist,
a filmmaker and a surfer and a daughter.
Well I don't have an address,
but I live here at my home sweet off
the grid treehouse on the big island of Hawaii.
This is my adventure headquarters
and the world is really my home as well.
So when you first enter our home sweet treehouse,
this is the view that you get to see.
This is actually our dining room table
with an amazing view of the sunset.
These are our hammocks,
which you actually get to go under every time
that you go out onto the Lanai.
So this is great for afternoon naps.
Sometimes I fall asleep with them and end up here all night.
They're great for just laying in,
watching the ocean hanging out.
Pun intended.
Right behind me is where all,
all the transformation happens.
My mom is an incredible yoga guru.
And so we have classes in here.
We have our retreats in here every morning.
Oh, there she is.
Hi mommy.
Give me a hug.
We're preparing right now
for her yearly yoga teacher training.
So this room is gonna be full of poses
and love and laughter.
- Yeah tomorrow.
Tonight.
- Tomorrow.
- Today. - Three weeks.
- We'd better keep planning.
We got to keep going.
So here's how we compost.
These are some papaya seeds
from my breakfast papaya.
You just slide open this coconut wood drawer
and inside there is
a reusable bucket.
So you open the bucket,
you plop your compost inside.
Whoop, there you go,
close the bucket.
And now I'm gonna show you where we take it
in the garden
to have the composting begin.
All the way to the back.
You have to find the can with the golden dolphin,
that marks the one that we're using.
You dump your compost right in here.
And then what you have to do is you have
to have some organic matter to help it break down.
And then after a couple of months,
the compost will turn to a fertilizer.
It looks just like a soil and we can put it
on all of our gardens
and the circle of life continues.
Too many,
I think it's very unusual to be literally living
within nature.
I mean you can hear the birds right now.
And so one second you can be inside
the house and the next second you're outside the house.
And there's really no way to actually tell the difference.
It's built in a way where no matter whether
there's a storm or anything crazy that happens,
you're protected and it's awesome.
The thing that I think is unusual
for me actually is the fact
that we have modern day appliances and everything
within a treehouse.
And all of them are made specifically
for our place or my dad,
MacGyver Papa,
has figured out how to rig them,
to work with our solar electricity
and living off the grid.
To me that's unusual because I grew
up having to literally sleep on the ground and,
you know wake up and,
and wash your everything in buckets
that you we'd have to haul water
from miles and miles away.
So to me now,
my home is,
is absolute luxury.
When each one of our little bungalows
that we offer here for guests,
they have their own shower.
This one is also a fish shower.
When you come back from the beach,
you just go hi fishy.
I'd like to get a shower,
oh a lot of pressure.
This is one of our first rooms on the property.
And I absolutely love this room
because you literally feel like you are living
in the garden.
Can you hear the birds?
(birds twittering)
Coconut wood closet with bamboo hangars.
So everything here is pretty much sustainable.
We don't use plastic hangers,
or we try not to use of plastic anything.
So the garden room shower literally comes
out of the bamboo which is pretty cool.
Woo hoo.
There you go.
So this is our stand-alone back unit.
If anybody wants to come as a guest
and have their own kitchen
and their own room and their own shower,
it's also a beautiful part of the jungle.
You can see right here there's a huge tree.
Look at this,
it just like provides shade and oxygen.
Thank you tree.
This is the beautiful garden area.
These trails connect the rooms
and we have beautiful pink hibiscus,
Mother-in-law tongue.
This is bamboo.
Bamboo is one of the most sustainable woods you can build
with and it's,
it's a very,
it's a very smart plant.
The lava rocks that were originally on
the land is what creates the sides of the trails.
Everything you see here,
we literally put in the ground
by hand since I was a baby.
So it's just such an amazing feat
to know that this was once just rugged lava jungle.
And now it's a beautiful oasis paradise.
Sometimes just really got to stop and smell the flowers.
So if you like dolphin,
this is the place to be.
This is the Naya room which means dolphin in Hawaiian.
And literally everything is dolphin
from the doorhandles to the doors,
to the sign.
Welcome to the rose room.
This is an ancient ceremonial hut
from East Timor that we are able
to save and bring back here.
I get wild dreams when I sleep in these huts.
They're amazing,
gorgeous carvings woman, man,
lots of it has very intricate private parts.
So they think that they're either ceremonial birthing huts,
or perhaps something to do with male,
female power.
Most people want to go on
a vacation to re-find themselves or go somewhere
to have a retreat.
Well I come home to do that.
I come home to really find myself,
find my voice again,
do my work,
hide out.
I don't think there's any such thing
as me ever relocating permanently,
but this is my home.
This is my adventure headquarters.
And it always will be a place
for me to set off from to go to adventures.