The Hippocampus, Hawaii

Legend has it, Kohala (the first of the 6 volcanos on the Big Island of Hawaii) is home to King Kamehameha I & this was the stomping grounds of the Ali'i & the training grounds for their warriors. You can feel it when you walk into the forest & listen deeply & intuitively to the ancestors. It is truly an honor to be on this 'aina (land).

Modern history: Up until 1984 this property was all avocado, Kukui & Ironwood land with the Kohala ditch running on the far south end. It wasn't until my current neighbor & sweet friend & her father bought the property & cleared away 160 Ironwoods to create a property that could be farmed & lived on. Then another couple bought the property in early 2000 & built it out with farm houses & gardens. Once they moved back to the mainland, this was home to the local skydive family where the pilots & instructors were housed. Finally, in 2021, Cirque-Girl Sequoia came in with a huge vision of a conscious community, learning & teaching alongside one another by way of events, projects, concerts, talks & certifications all the while farming & creating even bigger orchards to feed not just her community, but the community of Hawi & beyond. At this time, not only is it "hip" to farm & grow your own food, but it is crucial. 

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Everybody comes to Hawaii & thinks beaches, surf & jungles but why not try a different side of Hawaii? The Ironwood Forests of Hawi are here you’ll find ios (Hawaiian Hawks) & Pueos (Hawaiian owls only found on the Big Island) as the ancestor's whispers run through the massive forest of Ironwood, Kukui Nut & Avocado in an ancient river bed of sugar plantation country.

Deep in the heart of Hawaii’s only dormant volcano of Kohala, this was home to the most prestigious Ali’i (Hawaiian Royalty) & the training grounds of warriors. Here our farm sits on 10-acres with over 30 varieties of fruit trees & a view of the Big Blue (the ocean). We provide 3 platforms & 3 pine-needle-floor campsites to camp on, a center camp that has a kitchen, bathroom & shower plus a healing tent for you to meditate, do massage, practice Reiki, read or just plain have a beautiful discussion in. If you feel inclined to step out of the forest, you are welcome to use our communal eating area THE GROOVY GRINDS CAFE under the mango trees & we would love if you wanted to be a part of any of the events that we host here with our live-on conscious community. Things we do & can offer aerial, yoga & meditation classes, massage (ask hostess about booking a sesh), drum circles, bonfire nights, fire-dancing, community potluck dinners, mini-concerts, painting, planting & building projects & whatever we get called to do. ...& what's camping without a bonfire? We have two bonfire pits lower on the property that you can join in on if our community already has one going. (NO bonfires in the gulch please.)

One of our biggest bragging rights is that we are utilizing the Homebiogas unit which turns your toilet waste & food compost into methane gas for cooking. Also ZERO WASTE since we offer a bidet hose at the toilet for washing oneself (no toilet paper needed, or bring your own) & the gray water from the shower and kitchen sink go into a plot of banana trees. So our bathroom, shower & cooking facility is completely self-sufficient! Please pack out what you pack in & you may distribute your trash at our garbage facility down below by to the main buildings.

PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE AFTER DARK & PLEASE USE DIRECTIONS & NOT GOOGLE MAPS! It will take you down a 4x4 road. 

And when it’s time to step out of the forest & out of Pueo Ridge, we are a 5-minute drive directly above the main center of town & 15 minutes to the famous Polalu Valley hike that runs deep in to the jagged switchbacks of the Northern coast. Our area also headlines in ADVENTURE with skydiving, zip-lining, hiking & forest adventures.

Mahalo for reading!