Moonstruck Organics Coffee Farm

First things first: PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRAVEL BUDDY AND PLAN TO STAY AT LEAST THREE WEEKS. Our small off-grid coffee farm is above Place of Refuge National Park at 2000' elevation on Hawaii Island's west coast. We are in a very rural rain forest microclimate with ferns everywhere and nearly perfect shirtsleeve weather. Our usually clear sunny mornings are most often followed by rainy afternoons. We are close (driving not walking) to area beaches and about 20 minutes to the nearest large grocery store. We are 1 hour from KOA airport and 40 minutes to Kailua-Kona which has Costco, Target, Walmart and many restaurants and stores. Please note there is no laundry equipment on site. We go to commercial laundromats around twice a month. Our sleeping cabin is very basic. You will share our family bath house which has a flush toilet and heated shower. It also has a 24/7 way to charge your cell phone or tablet. Computers can be charged in our house during daylight hours only. If you are interested in learning about a sustainable lifestyle, you can practice it here.

We are your hosts Ana and David. We are healthy and active in caring for our farm. We love sharing about coffee culture and the Hawai'ian culture too. We enjoy meeting people and consider our volunteer opportunity mutually beneficial. We are seeking two people who already know one another to apply together because of the isolation on our farm. Our minimum stay is three weeks. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRAVEL BUDDY AND PLAN TO STAY AT LEAST THREE WEEKS. Your gender and nationality and sexual preference does not matter to us as we treat everyone with the respect with which we hope to be treated. We offer at least one trip a week to the beach or to town. Usually it is two trips. Most of our work consists of controlling weeds and hauling brush so it is not difficult nor requires great strength. We have one friendly older pet cat and lots of chickens. We have mosquitoes and noisy roosters and noisy coqui frogs in addition to our gorgeous scenery and lush vegetation. Please expect to take a few days to get used to hearing the frogs and chickens at night. Our rainy season is from April through October so expect daily rain and muddy conditions. We will work with volunteers to have time off for travel to other parts of our magical island. We have loads of books about Hawai'i (culture, history, nature, travel) which we gladly share. We have good cell signal here but no Wi-Fi. We have a place to charge your cell phone in our bath house which has a heated shower and flush toilet. You will cook most of your meals with the basic food items that we supply. You may always buy extra things you like. We have no laundry equipment here so you will be invited to go with us to a commercial laundromat approximately every other week. There is infrequent free bus service about 1.6 miles down our farm road at the main highway. Hitchhiking with two people is safe here.