Taos County, New Mexico (CNN) The compound was hiding in plain sight, a white smudge in the dusty green expanse of sagebrush and juniper stretching across the Colorado-New Mexico border. JUST WATCHED New Mexico compound suspects granted bail Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH New Mexico compound suspects granted bail 02:05"People come here and they want to be left alone and sometimes they do things that are unconventional," said Malaquias "JR" Rael, whose family arrived in the Taos region in the mid-1800s. It appears to have been a life that the family on the compound struggled with. The retired Taos county magistrate judge is a lifelong Taoseño whose family goes back some 400 years to the Spanish colonial era. Life in an earthshipOf all the countercultural strains in Taos County, the earthship movement might be the most mainstream.

Source: CNN August 26, 2018 14:15 UTC