Stengården, Denmark

A Stengaarden has been run by the Rasmussen family since 1997 and is now a very diverse organic-mekka in the region and boasts the largest organic food store in Denmark. Their background for buying and running the farm is their rural upbringing and subsequent education as chemical engineers.

They bought the farm to create a good framework for ourselves and our children’s lives. The plan was to work part-time as engineers and supplement with home-grown food and a small barn door sale. When they took over, Stengården was converted to organic farming – and they quickly built up a door-to-door sale of fresh eggs and good vegetables.

They have 5 hectares (withover 100 kinds of vegetables), 3000 egg layers, 50 grass-fed beef cattle,100 hectares of grains and clover, bee hives + their sweet and energetic dog Ronja and the barn cats. Everything they grow and buy from other organic producers (meat and dairy products, vegetarian spreads, crisps, chocolates, premium olive oils, etc.) is sold in their own organic supermarket and café/restaurant. This sales model enables them to have a very biodiverse farm and focus on old and nutritious varieties. They believe in biodiversity, an self sufficient on-farm cycle – ie. they don’t use any external fertilizer and almost no external animal feed. In this way they try their best to make a sustainable high quality food production in a way that makes their customers, employed and our self having a good life.