A Little About Us
Cinderland is an ecovillage and tropical farm retreat located in the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii. We are community focused on self-sustainability, organic gardening and permaculture. We also love vegan rawfoods and yoga. We share the dream of a simple, healthy, natural way of life.
We are minutes away from the black sands beach, tide pools, volcano steam vents, warm ponds, green lake, lava flow "ecstatic dance" (now called sundance), health food store, and farmer's markets.
We welcome people of all backgrounds and nationalities, particularly those that are friendly, open, conscientious, love the earth and are committed to its preservation. We are currently supported by donations; all proceeds go right back into the community.
Recent News
It was one of those beautiful, warm, breezy, sunny days at Cinderland. One of my fantasies came true! We all got together in the community kitchen and had a home-made coffee brew prepared by Noah. Coconut milk for creamer and local honey to sweeten it. Yum! We had a quick meeting to delegate tasks and really got into the spirit of ‘work day.’ I’m really getting quite fund of Cinderlanders. Despite the contrast of our backgrounds and experience, we come together in a strong way—This, to me, is confirmation that we can create diverse yet truly empathic communities while sustaining the balance of our eco-system.
What got done…
- The rock wall at the yoga studio got completed and we’re now just one or two steps away from completing it. All that’s left to do is wrapping it with the bug screen, finish painting it, and rigging it with the futon’s. Well, there’s more detail, but at that point it will feel completed and ready to use full on.
- As usual, some of us worked on garden beds. I broke ground on the south side of my home. Next, I will add a layer of cinder, one of mulch, and one of manure. I also learned much about what was already growing from my neighbor Margoth, our eldest resident—a true sweetheart.
- To continue adding interesting images to the website, I created a rig for my camera that would allow me to take aerial shots. I think they came out great. I will be posting them soon.
Well, that’s that. Thanks for you interest in our village. As always, we hope you can visit us soon.
Mucho Aloha!
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Caley makes some great grub and popcorn on his state of the art fire pit stove.
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Our website is slowly but surely coming together and it is beginning to express it true potential. There’s so many details we have yet to address and so many other things that are in line to be published, but it just takes time. We know that you want to see more and more pics and videos—well, you will, and very soon. Just the other day I shot a nice roll during work day and pretty soon I’ll shoot another roll of the Goddess Sanctuary, which was simply not ready to shoot just the other day. It’s looking really nice! In short, keep checking because we’ll have more and more and more.
BTW, I’ll be installing two new features if you are interested in getting updated when we have new content. First will be a Facebook updater. Whenever we add a post to the website, our FB page will be updated. Second, I’m activating Feedburner as we speak. When you subscribe to our Feedburner RSS, you’ll get an email whever we publish new content. Don’t forget our site is RSS enabled and you can add that to your favorite RSS client, like Google Reader.
Yay!
PS, If you don’t see the features, feel free to give me a holler in the comments to remind 
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Yes, Shlomit will be here on the 12th direct from Israel. I really should not be the one posting this update, it should be Jesus, because he could probably rant about it for 108 paragraphs!
Shlomit and I go back to 2007 when I met her at the Tree of Life in Patagonia, Arizona. We connected in a beautiful anam cara kind of way. Our trusting connection is the reason I’m here today. We’re all thrilled for two main reasons (well, three really…or is it four?): a) she’s a super awesome rawfood practitioner and ‘chef’; b) she’s a ‘trained in India’ yoga teacher and practitioner; c) she has a beaming smile, and d) she’s trained Russian soldiers how to handle their pieces in the Israeli army! (That’s right, holy shit!)
So, poke your head around here after the twelfth for some awesome a’s, b’s, and c’s (we’ll leave rifle training for more dire times).
Welcome back Shlomit!
Aloha!
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A while in the making, we finally have a coherent website! Yes, it’s simple, but we have nice plans for it. Very soon you’ll start seeing more images and videos, events, maybe a forum, maybe some blogs, etc. We hope to be sharing how we do things here at Cinderland in a video blog of sorts. We’re not highly sophisticated (yet) but we thought showcasing how we just do it instead of waiting around to have the money or the expertise to ‘do it right’ (that’s just wishful thinking anyways) would be a great way for us to celebrate our progress and hopefully inspire others to just setup an ecovillage already! Perhaps this will turn into a great place for ecovillages around Gaia to exchange know-how’s.
What do you want to see and read about here? Leave a comment and tell us about it. So, keep coming back to see how we just goof it up online
Credits
Avigail Manneberg is responsible for the really sweet looking graphics you see. She is Shlomit’s sister (for those who know Shlomit—a really sweet girl/woman from Israel who will be coming back to stay at Cinderland on the 12th of this month). I don’t know that much more about her, except that this is her website.
Lex Vilanova (myself) is the web developer who integrated the design into a standards compliant and ‘almost cutting edge WordPress driven website. (I’ve been making websites since about 2001 and I’m now living here at Cinderland with the intention to become a landbase protector. “Land is chief and the people its servants.” Mitakuye Oyasin–to all my relations, I give thanks.
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