Farm Manager - Hale Akua Garden Farm (Maui, HI)

Hale Akua Garden Farm is an organic farm and eco-retreat on Maui's stunning north shore. Our mission is to grow fresh, healthy food for our retreat guests and community while serving as a working farm that nourishes people and also educates volunteers, apprentices, neighbors, and community members about sustainable agriculture.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Farm Manager who is not only skilled in animal husbandry and organic farming but also passionate about teaching and inspiring others. This role is central to Lori Grace's vision: a farm that feeds people, heals the land, helps animals thrive and educates those who come to learn.

Responsibilities

• Manage and care for ducks, chickens, goats, fish and soldier fly larvae in humane, healthy systems
• Plan, plant, and harvest eggs, fish and organic crops for residents and guests
• Develop and maintain regenerative farming systems such as composting, soil improvement, and water conservation
• Teach and mentor volunteers, apprentices, neighbors, and community members in organic farming practices.Manage and teach how to use human food waste to grow soldier fly larvae that then become food for chickens, ducks and fish. Maui's food waste enhances climate change by creating methane We will show how to use human food waste usefully by feeding our high quality human food waste to soldier fly larvae
• Collaborate with Hale Akua's retreat team to align farm operations with community goals
  
  

Requirements

• Practical, hands-on experience in organic farming and animal husbandry
• Strong communication skills; ability to teach, guide, and mentor others
• Leadership and organizational ability to coordinate staff and volunteers
• Passion for sustainability, food self-reliance, animal husbandry and community living
• Subjects to teach guests, interns and employees Understanding of closed loop farming where we raise food for our animals right on our land
• Closed loop farming is very valuable economically on an island
• Inspire young people that there is a way to grow high protein vegetables, fish, chickens, ducks on an island that usually imports all animal food
• Teach about how high protein vegetables reduce risks of diabetes which is enhanced by the eating of high sugar fruits like mango, papaya. Bananas and pineapple.
• Teach how overfishing in Maui's oceans has greatly depleted ocean life locally and how we can help protect our ocean ecology by learning how to grow fish on land sustainably through aquaponics
  
  

Benefits

• $28-$30/hour, depending on experience and performance
• On-site housing option available after a 3-month trial period
• Perks: access to our pool, sauna, and hot tub after hours
• Training in Nonviolent Communication to support collaboration and leadership
• Opportunity to live and work in Maui, leading an organic plant and animal farm that feeds, teaches, and inspires.Right now, buying eggs or poultry grown on Maui is rare because of high food costs