Introduction
The joint efforts of families - all sharing the love of nature and cherishing traditions - bear a fruit growing more and more beautiful: the Eco-Farm and Farmhouse Museum (Ökogazdaság és Tanyamúzeum). The farm is to be found where the heart of the Kiskunság National Park beats; on his way to the farm the visitor will walk across meadows of colourful wild flowers and various medicinal herbs, as he passes by the thorn-bushes along the banks of the ditches the bright red haws on the branches seem to be glowing, he will take enjoyment in the sight of the cattle herd grazing all around in the wide open space of the puszta (= barren wilderness: the usually bare land on the Hungarian Plain is called puszta in Hungarian), acacia groves and a fascinating old church, named after the area Kunpuszta Church, will make the unfolding picture complete.
Our knowledge is a living library, indeed, each word and each piece of information having been bequeathed by the father to his son, by the mother to her daughter. It is love and instinct for life together that create loyalty within the family. Everyone who visits this place will be enthralled by the sincere friendliness, the noble-spirited simplicity and large-hearted modesty of the people of the puszta, by their deep respect for life in general. Under the protecting auspices of the Kiskunság National Park the Farmhouse Museum appears before the visitor as a living picture: every tool reaches out for the hands of its master, every seed tells the story of the ancestors, the old bowl - that in those old days used to be sent to mothers in childbed - almost makes us taste the delicate flavour of pigeon soup.
Soon it will have been for two decades that four generations, who all live and work together on this old family farm of an area of nearly 20 hectares, at the same time foster the traditional culture of peasant life, so that it could be preserved and left to the future generations as well. What we present to our visitors, against the backdrop of those past times, is how to produce indigenous and alternative plants, how to manage animal husbandry with indigenous species - today. It is from the fruits of the earth that we make our food. There is a large earthenware oven shaped like a hay stack, heated from the outside, the type that used to be the essential equipment of peasant houses; we have restored the oven with our own hands and keep it in good shape. The oven and also the small light portable kitchen range are in permanent use again: we cook and bake our food using these old pieces of furniture.
Whoever had seen our farm but once, longed to return...
