Jubilee Farm seeks to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the Earth community and to share the gift of the land. Our diverse ministries call us all to live simply and sustainably.
Established in 1999 by the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, Jubilee Farm’s 164 acres stand as an expression of our commitment to honor the land and all its inhabitants, wild and domestic. The quiet peacefulness of the land offers opportunities to listen, reflect, learn, and be healed as our visitors experience a deepened awareness that Earth and all her creatures comprise the one community of life.
We offer farm tours for individuals and groups of all ages. We are available for speaking engagements on a wide variety of ecological topics.
Our work here has touched the lives of thousands of folks who have taken advantage of the opportunities to walk the land and experience the goodness of creation, participate in our vegetarian cooking classes and various other programs and festivities, engage in study, and learn about sustainable agriculture and healthy foods.
Our commitment to education and to the restoration and preservation of the land is integrated in our work with students and those committed to the land. We are engaged in a long term plan to revitalize our prairie areas, small wetlands, wooded areas, and preserving Jubilee Farm as sanctuary for all its inhabitants.
We work with Lincoln Land Association of Bird Banders. Jubilee Farm is along the Mississippi Flyway, the most important of the four major migratory routes birds use in North America. It is a path of migration that extends from Canada’s Hudson Bay along the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf Coast. Many of the birds who rest here at Jubilee Farm have flown up from South and Central America. We also host one of the MOTUS towers that are stationed on almost every continent. And to ensure the future of Jubilee Farm as sanctuary, in 2023 we placed the land in a conservation easement with the Sangamon County Conservancy Trust.