Pre-Volcano Archive: Hedonisia Hawaii EcoFeminist Community
Until it was destroyed in the 2018 Kilauea volcano eruption, our model of community living attracted visitors from around the world.
Hedonisia Post-Volcano
We are now an online community based on:
- Lava to Lotus Web Portfolio - creative book and web projects from our pre-volcano community.
- Hedonisia Membership. Access our community and social entrepreneurship books
- Virtual Volunteer. You can volunteer on any of our book or web projects
- Yin-Yang Gender Healing - A project inspired by our pre-eruption eco-feminist community
♥ Pre-Volcano Community Page ♥
Agritourism: Loving the land
Hedonisia's property consists of 4 acres of lush eco-community jungle gardens. We created a garden system maintained by interns, fair-trade volunteers, and weekly or monthly guests. The jungle grows fast, and our biggest job is simply to keep the gardens from being overgrown.
Our farming model is to mimic Mother Nature. We find the plants that like to grow in our volcanic rainforest environment so much that they will grow like a weed with minimal maintenance! It allows us to grow many edibles on the property without the need for energy-intensive labor as with traditional farming.
As part of our agricultural tourism program, we have devised a unique classification system by dividing our property into 26 'gardens' of edible or decorative plants. This gives us a very efficient way to utilize eco-tourist volunteer labor as well as offering an intuitive way for Guests to easily find and harvest edible plants and fruits on the property.
Hedonisia Jungle Community Gardens
We have a featured plant in each garden. Though all the gardens were destroyed in the eruption, each page contains lots of useful information on the plant:
- A: Hinalo St. Border - Bamboo
- B: Crater Edge and Berm - Aloe Vera
- C: Jungle Cottage Front Garden - Water Hyacinth
- D: Sides of Cottage & Barn - Edible Hibiscus
- E: Driveway Side Border - Heliconia
- F: Recycling Zone, Kitchen Drainage & Smoking Temple- Ti Tree
- G: Bathroom & Shower Edge - Anthurium
- H: Bamboo Hut to Parking Lot - Bananas
- I: Compost Gardens - Starfruit
- J: Kava & Pineapple Gardens - Pineapples
- K: Upper Cliff From Kitchen to Ocean View by Kahuna Cabin - Mountain Apple
- L: Ocean View Garden Front, left and behind Ocean View - Mexican Sunflower
- M: Salad Zone Along lower cliff below Bamboo Hut; to the 3-level terrace - Katuk
- N: Three-Tier Terrace Between Salad Zone and Mulberry Hill - Tulsi
- O: Mulberry Hill to the Second Terrace (Under Kahuna Cabin) - Mulberry
- P: Second Terrace to End of Soil Quarry - Sweet Potato
- Q: Meditation Temple in front of Soil Quarry to Cane Truck- Gunpowder Tree
- R: Cane Truck Bed - Coleus
- S: Lower level beyond Cane Truck; to back border property Coconut Treeline - Ulu Tree
- T: Triangular Garden between Cane Truck Lono Hale, and Back Border - Rambutan
- U: Loader Garden to Guava Hut In front of Back Border; includes the fire pit - Coconut
- V: Back Border from behind Mediation Temple to Love Bus - Avocado
- W: Triangle Garden Area between Guava Hut, Love Bus, and Ohia Camper - Papaya
- X: Trail to Lava Tube and Ocean View slope above the Meditation Temple - Ohia Tree
- Y: From the crater at the road to between Jungle Cottage and the Barn - Monstera
- Z: Our Volcanic Crater - Kava
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Tropical Tree Farming
We are more of a tree-farming community. With eco-tourists who only stay for a short time, we simply don't have the continual labor to do 'normal' farming. Trees need a lot of attention in the beginning but once they start growing up they do their thing. A perfect symbol for a 'community of individuals.
Each tree that was on the property before the eruption is listed here along with the gardens where it was planted:
- Avocado - Garden N, V
- Brazilian Plum - Garden P
- Breadfruit - Garden P, S, Z
- Eggfruit - Garden K, S
- Jaboticaba - Garden S, M
- Lemon - Garden P, S, V
- Longan - Garden P
- Loquat - Garden M
- Lychee - Garden Z
- Mango - Garden N, V
- Mountain Apple - Garden K, V, Z
- Papaya - Garden V
- Rambutan - Garden Z
- Rollinia - Garden P
- Sapodilla
- Soursop - Garden I
- Starfruit - Garden A, I, R
- Surinam Cherry - Garden D, K
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Post-Volcano Online Community & Volunteer Camping in Hawaii
With our model of community living, we attracted wonderful people from around the world.
Over a 14-year history, the Hedonisia community developed websites, books, and eCourses.
? Virtual Volunteer ?
? Lava to Lotus Web Portfolio ?
?Support & Membership ?
?Lava Land Camping Volunteer ?