For five happy years they enjoyed simple lives in their straw and mud huts.

Generating their own power and growing their own food, they strived for self-sufficiency and thrived in homes that looked more suited to the hobbits from The Lord of the Rings.

Then a survey plane chanced upon the ‘lost tribe’… and they were plunged into a decade-long battle with officialdom.” – Mail Online

via Lost middle-class tribe’s ‘secret’ eco-village in Wales spotted in aerial photograph taken by plane.

Photos by Wales News.