ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

Jodie Williams & Brett Gowley

With more than 100 years and six generations of history in the Sunshine Coast, Noosa Shire “local” Chef, Jodie Williams and her partner, Brett Gowley made the move to Kin Kin in 2009 and established Mayan Farm.

Kin Kin is also where Jodie’s grandparents grew up, met, fell in love and raised their family.

Brett offered rural property maintenance services and farmed to produce chicken, pork, beef, lamb and garden produce.

In 2012 they restored the old Kin Kin General Store building on Main St. Blackant Café was born and Mayan Farm supplied a lot of the produce for the first seven years until it ceased growing poultry and pork which were the most labour intensive, then lamb which proved difficult to sustain and locally process.

Blackant Café rapidly grew to become an award winning cafe/restaurant, always buzzing with locals and visitors from across the Sunshine Coast. Jodie sold the Café in 2023 – sadly, it is currently closed.

In 2020 they opened Mayan Luxe Villas House as unique, luxury sustainable eco-tourism accommodation.

2025 sees four new rammed earth villas – Karinya, Mia Mia, K’gari and Cooinda – opening and we are excited to have you stay!

SUSTAINABLE ACCOMMODATION

Constructed from rammed earth

Mayan Luxe Villas House and Mayan Farm Villas are constructed with rammed earth from Mayan Farm.

Increasingly seen in contemporary architecture, rammed earth is a sustainable building material due to its thermal mass, strength, durability and visual impressiveness. Rammed-earth houses have a natural warmth and beauty that help them blend with their surrounding land and natural environment. They are naturally cool in summer and warm in winter.

This construction technique has been around for thousands of years and makes up long stretches of the Great Wall of China, the magnificent Kasbahs of Morocco and the enchanting Alhambra in Spain.

The rammed-earth walls were constructed on-site by ramming an aggregate mixture, including gravel, sand, silt and clay – otherwise known as “between formwork”. After removing the formwork, the stunning effect of the rammed-earth walls is revealed.

about mayan farm @ kin kin

Located on the Noosa Trail Network, Mayan Farm comprises over 100 acres of fertile grazing land along Kin Kin Creek in the stunning Noosa Hinterland.

As a working farm, it houses a variety of livestock including droughtmaster cattle, quarterhorses, muscovy ducks and meat and layer chickens. All animals are free to roam the large paddocks, ensuring their health and wellbeing.