Our farm is located on the California Central Coast near the small town of Oceano, on an ancient sand dune. This part of the Central Coast is known for its mild climate, beautiful beaches, and dunes. We are a small, fairly new organic farm growing avocados, passionfruit, and rare citrus commercially. We also have many other diverse plantings mainly for our own use - white sapote, cherimoya, mango, dragonfruit, goldenberries, blackberries, mulberries, persimmons, apricots, lemons, limes, apples, nectarines, bananas cactus fruits, garden veggies, etc. Located on 16 acres about 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean, we embrace organic and permaculture principles and try to enjoy our work. Besides the crops, we work on many other things such as fencing, land clearing, wood cutting and splitting, biochar production, maintenance of everything, and a small natural building project.
Home to Edulis Gardens, the brand under which our organic produce is sold.
Also home to the newly forming Dawn Sky Retreat Center which will be a place for serious long-term meditators.
We seek to establish a community kindred spirits who share a powerful intention to awaken in a spiritual sense.
This land is meant to be a home for those whose lives are oriented around direct experience, inner stillness, and the ongoing unfolding of awakening. We are not a short term spiritual retreat center, a workshop space, or a casual community. We are a small, presence based environment where daily life, land stewardship, and inner practice are inseparable. A work trade semi retreat lifestyle where the farm supports itself so it is low or no cost for the residents. Residents here value: • quiet as nourishment • work as practice • simplicity as freedom • awareness as the center of life • community without entanglement • responsibility without drama • solitude without isolation If awakening is your primary orientation — not as a belief, but as lived experience — you will feel at home here.
We don't have drugs, alcohol, or tobacco on the property. We encourage meditation and respectful communication and of course farm work. By drugs we include marijuana. For safety reasons we don't want people working and using alcohol or drugs at the same time. We also don't want to foster that sort of atmosphere because there are often people here specifically because there are these rules. So if you think you need to use marijuana every day "because it's not a drug it's a medicine" that's great please find another farm to do that. If you go off the farm on weekends and have a beer or whatever that is ok as long as it doesn't affect your behavior here.
We are interested in finding a long-term wwoofer volunteer to be sort of an assistant manager of the farm who wants to get out of the "rat race" and experience very simple low-stress sustainable living and farming while exploring the deeper questions of life. Some wwoofers stay here 2 weeks to 3 months or so. After that, there is an opportunity to become a resident intern which could be for a year, 2 years, or more.
Wwoofer no-shows have been a problem. Please be considerate and make sure you really want to be here before committing.
Certifications: CCOF.
(Also see the Instagram account of the produce brand of the farm, @edulis8, for photos and videos).
Internet access available.
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Learning opportunities
Fruit or nut farming
Viticulture
Green Building
Renewable energy production
Methods or systems
No-till farming
Permaculture
Host type
Production farm
Certified organic
6.5
Hectares
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16
Acres
