 | So what do you do with a family of 9 and 1 acre of land?
Well, we planted a garden. Now this was your ordinary American, capitalist, victory garden with three 10X30 ft. raised beds with the regular vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and lettuce, with a healthy dose of weeds.
Now our family’s gardening experience goes back five generations to our great Grandparents who were immigrants to America from German and Italian descent. After settling in New York, they began to plant the biggest, luscious garden in the area and literally lived off their one acre lot and, when they ran out of room, started cultivating unused sections of baseball fields. This to them was living the American Dream. And their legacy lived on in the lives of their grandchildren. Memories of a favorite recipe, with a reminiscing of the beautiful garden where they originated from and continuous growing tips gleaned from years of experience.
Then, in 2007 Dad decided to rent a rototiller. And if you rent a full day’s worth of tiller, then you might as well get a full day’s work of tilling. So the garden grew. It grew to a full three times of it’s original size. It grew the next week to four times or about 1/4 acre after a second visit to the rental center.
However, if you have no one to tend to the cash crop of weeds, then what’s the use? So off the couch we flew and into the jungle we charged! But an army runs on it’s stomach. Unfortunately, the way to filling the stomach is filled with many days of work and dirt, and with unwilling volunteers it was a long time in filling.
But when you pick that tomato or eat a caesar salad made from your own greens, the amazing feeling of reward and accomplishment fills you with joy, and all the toil in getting it to the table suddenly disappears. When we experienced it, we wanted an opportunity to share our bountiful harvest with others. Thus Jubilee Family Gardens was born. There is nothing comparative to freshly picked, high quality, home/locally grown food and we want you to enjoy it too.
Over the years we’ve expanded our range to include fruit trees and bushes, breads, jams, crafts, and a host of other pleasures. Throughout the entire experience, numerous experiments have been conducted. Tomato trellises, big Bell peppers, bird-less berries, Israeli kohlrabi, “vegetables are the ones in the neat row not the weeds”, and the list goes on. But through it all we have not looked at gardening with “How can we grow this glob of protoplasm Bigger, Faster, Cheaper?”, but “How can we let the creation abound in it’s best form; the way it was designed to?” This has directed our course to producing superior quality produce that is not sprayed with Round-Up for weed elimination or irradiated to keep E-Coli. out of the consumer’s diet, but through keeping our farm both family and nature friendly, we can bless you with wholesome food.
Why are we called Jubilee Family Gardens? First, our last name is NOT Jubilee, it’s Itterman. Second, Jubilee describes joy and liberty. Just so, we desire you to experience the full joy and freedom of eating food which is environmentally friendly, locally, and multi-generationally grown and sold.
God Bless,
The Ittermans of Jubilee Family Gardens
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