Throughout the history Bornholm was integral part of the continent. Around 1,700 BC strong tectonic movements disconnected it and produced one of the most interesting areas of all 500 Danish islands. Its location enabled the island very early to make living mainly of fishery.

Around 4,000 BC Bornholm's inhabitants became a farming community.

Several times in the history the island changed hands from Swedish to Danish. The island always belonged to the kings, though (whichever they were Swedish or Danish). That is why the farmers of Bornholm were never assigned to any fief or dependent on any feudal nobility and lived as free peasants. Anne Kathrine Kofoed descends from one of the old families of wealthy farmers with the traceable genealogy reaching over 600 years back.  

There is a tectonic line between the granite bedrock in the north of the island, which was formed around 1.7 billion years ago, and the sandstone layer in the south, which is only around 500 million years old. Therefore the northern part is reach in extremely good farming soil whereas the southern part has poor, sandy soil. However nothing can be so bad that there is nothing good in it: the northern coast has gorgeous cliff beaches whereas the southern coast is reach in fine yellow quartz sand shaped in beautiful dunes. Luckily the huge farm of the Kofoeds is located on the fertile, northern part of Bornholm.