A couple who built a house in the jungle have shared their experience of living off the grid for the past 50 years.

Dano and Robin have been residing together in a house constructed from wooden planks in the Waialua Valley of Molokai, Hawaii, since the late 1970s. Situated 30 kilometers from the nearest town, far from traffic lights and big stores, they have perfected their homesteading lifestyle over the decades and have never looked back.

The couple hasn’t watched TV for more than 30 years and say they “avoid Google as much as possible.”

Raising four children in the jungle, Dano and Robin sustain themselves with plants and animals they gather and bring home in a wheelbarrow. From making their own coffee from cocoa beans to deer hunting and creating herbal medicine, everything they use or eat is derived from the natural resources found on the two acres of land surrounding their home.

American filmmaker Peter Santenello, who has 2.95 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, recently spent time with the couple and documented a typical “day in the life” as they live without electricity.

Dano told Peter, “I wasn’t aware of how unconventional this existence is, but there are times when I look at Robin and think, ‘I haven’t seen another person in a fortnight,’ and I don’t even notice it.”