meet the team

Kate & Doug

Aloha! We're Kate & Doug Hickey. Married couple from Chicago, proud dog parents, beer aficionados and the owners of Sunshower Farms. We started Sunshower to serve people who care about where their coffee comes from and who truly want to know their farmer.

In our previous lives, I (Kate) was a lawyer and Doug was a proprietary futures trader in Chicago. We moved to Hawaii in February of 2013 in search of something new (and warm) and fell in love with this farm. I do our marketing, website, coffee roasting and sales, events, vegetable production and animal care. Doug is in charge of the accounting and all 8 acres of our coffee production.

when we aren't busy working

you can find

Doug

Golfing
Wearing T-shirts he got for free
Making spreadsheets for everything
Reading Reddit
Cheering on Chicago sports (especially the Cubs)

you can find

Kate

Accumulating too many houseplants
Reading – I especially love Harry Potter fan-fiction (I know it is embarrassing) and SCOTUS blogs
Pairing cheese popcorn with red wine
Watching competition reality tv shows (Survivor and The Challenge are my favorites!)

you can find

Us

Playing lawn games—our favorites are bocce ball or monkey in the middle with our German Shepherd, Bruce.
Travelling to drink great beer—we collect beer caps and pint glasses from breweries across the country