A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

— Greek proverb.

The Bauernhof Kitsteiner is the family farm of the Kitsteiner family.

Kitsteiner is a classic German surname. It is pronounced “KIT-stine-er” in Americanized German or “KIT–shtine-ur” in more proper German. Also, our oldest daughter was born in Germany when I was in the US Air Force. So we wanted to have a classic German farm name. The word bauernhof is German for homestead or farmhouse or small family farm. It is pronounced “BOW-urn-hoff”… BOW rhymes with “cow” and hoff rhymes with “off”.

This is how the Bauernhof Kitsteiner was named.

We were not raised on a farm. But our goal was to raise our own food in the most ideal way we could. So we bought a farm to do just this.

Some of the things we raise on the farm are very productive. We decided to raise a a bit more than we need, so we could sell this food in our community. This helps to offset our costs.

We are a homeschooling family. We are a multi-generational farmstead. We are Christians. We are environmentalists. We are permaculturists.

We are a host site for farm volunteers, and we have hosted over 30 individuals from over 10 countries from around the world.

In short, we are a family that is daily becoming more deeply connected to our community as we establish roots.

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