Svobodné Hory is a small-scale ecological market garden focused on intensive vegetable and cut-flower production for direct sales. The farm combines food production with education, hosting workshops and training programs for beginning farmers. The farm is owned and operated by Tereza Pesek and Jakub Pesek.

Irrigation pond, municipality well.

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The farm is run by its founders, who come from creative, non-agricultural backgrounds — one studied music production, the other interior architecture. Both have always felt a strong connection to nature, landscape, and hands-on work. When they discovered market gardening, their previous experience, values, and skills naturally came together. Running the farm requires a high level of creativity as well as strong systems, planning, and daily repeatability, which form the foundation of a productive and economically viable small-scale farm.

We are graduates of Farm School (higher education practical farming school).

Key skills include crop planning, production management, labor organization, direct sales (CSA) and customer care, and overall farm economics. Alongside vegetable production, the farm also focuses on cut-flower production and educational activities. Seasonal workers and students support the farm during the growing season, contributing to daily fieldwork, harvest, and packing, while gaining hands-on experience in a real small-scale farm operation.

The primary motivation is to create a financially viable small farm that regenerates soil, produces high-quality food and contributes to local food systems and at the same time allows us to have a good life. Education and transparency are our main values. We want to show that the market gardening system is viable even in central/eastern Europe and our goal is to create a blueprint farm that others can copy.