Modern Farmsteads

Mission

Modern Farmsteads was founded with the belief that even though many of us will never own or run a working farm, the truth is, we can all live off our land a little bit. In our experience, growing food creates community, impacts our health holistically, benefits the environment, and brings us joy.  Regardless of where you call home, the size of your property or the establishment that you run, at Modern Farmsteads we have made it our mission to help city folks and urban dwellers learn the rewarding and simple ways to grow vegetables, herbs, and fruit that fits within their busy schedule and particular living situation. Our clients range from those just starting out who want to grow herbs and greens, to those who hope to introduce freshly grown vegetables into their family’s diet, to individuals and families eager to transform their whole property into an edible landscape that feeds them with the seasons.

We also consult for restaurants, hotels, and catering firms who want to create productive culinary gardens that offer the full farm to table experience for their customers.

We work with hospitals, clinics and recovery centers to create therapeutic gardens that provide beautiful flowers and healthy food for individuals, families, and the catering facilities within the organizations.

We meet in your growing space and consult about where to place your garden, talk about what grows best in our region and our initial garden consult includes the garden design for your planning. We also offer bespoke garden installations and ongoing maintenance services in order to design, build, and sustain your garden for the years to come.

Experience

Christina and Jochen began their gardening journey just under 20 years ago in Boulder, Colorado in a community garden. At the time, they had little children and a small budget. The challenge was to learn how to grow their own food that was organic, economical, and that would help them work toward sustainability.  It became a fun family endeavor where their little girls proudly grew their own spinach (and therefore loved and ate it), while Christina and Jochen learned numerous international practices, regarding how to grow almost every kind of vegetable, from the global community who gardened with them.

Since then, Jochen and Christina have grown food at home in Northern Ireland, micro-farmed on a traditional English allotment garden in London, England, participated in a community garden in Northern California, and have come full circle to Colorado where they settled in Longmont and have been turning their small, old-town property into an urban farm that produces fruit, herbs, and an abundance of vegetables with which they feed their family of five almost year-round.

Christina and Jochen have come to love what they call “Modern Farmsteading” - a way of living where they weave growing their own food (+ milling and baking their own sourdough bread) in and around their family’s busy schedules with all the demands of modern life.  For many years, Christina worked in senior corporate and non-profit roles by day, and by night and on the weekends she could be found in her family’s, friends’ and neighbors’ gardens - trouble-shooting and helping them enjoy the opportunity of being connected to the food they eat.  In 2018, she stepped away from corporate life and she and Jochen set up their own company - Modern Farmsteads - so that they can help their neighbors up and down the Front Range begin to have the garden that they have always hoped for.

Book a garden consultation at https://www.modernfarmsteads.com/book-in-some-gardening-time

Seedlings available for purchase in our online shop https://www.modernfarmsteads.com/shop

Buy garden raised beds or DIY raised bed kits here: https://www.modernfarmsteads.com/shop?category=Raised+beds