From the city to a self-sufficient farm
Jan and Kirstine both trained as historians, and a fondness for the way things used to be done runs through most of the choices they make on the farm. The idea behind Dambækgaard comes from two places: Kirstine’s grandmother’s farm on the island of Lolland, and years of travelling through the wine regions of France and Italy, always staying at small agriturismos – the kind of places where the food and the rooms are as honest as the people running them.
Kirstine grows it and cooks it. What drives her is the produce, the field-to-table cooking and the care taken at every step in between. She is happiest planning a menu – which, luckily, is most of the time.
In 2017 she left a consulting career and the glass office blocks of central Copenhagen to farm and cook full time. She has not looked back.
Jan is the one with the stories – about the animals, the land, how the farm works and why it works that way. When he is not running a school as its headmaster, you will find him showing guests around.
Ask him about sustainability, the vegetables and the meat the farm produces, or the food and wine on the table, and set aside some time.
Would you like to visit, or do you have a day in mind you would like to hold with us? Write to us and Kirstine will get back to you.
We usually reply within a couple of days.
