The Jones fishermen welcomed the sight of land from within the small rowboat. They had set off the previous morning from the coast of Wales to catch fish for their families when they got caught in a storm and found themselves some 80 miles to the West, landing along the east coast of Ireland. After speaking with the locals on the beach, they discovered that they had landed in a small fishing village, similar to their Welsch home village, called Ros Eó (Rush). 
Nicholas Jones was born in 1828 in a house named Ivanhoe after the 1819 novel by author Walter Scott. The house in Rush was situated on the main street (now lower Main street) and was known by many people in the village as the ''Rambling House'', a place where seanchaithe (storytellers) would entertain the people of the community. Nicholas made a living by farming and, like his ancestors before him, fishing. Nicholas spent a lot of time at sea, often rowing alongside his other family members to the Island of Lambay to collect sea bird guano from the cliffs and rocks to use as an effective fertiliser because of the birds rich fish diet. These same fishermen grew vegetables for their own families and mended their fishing nets in allotments along what's known as the back lanes. This same area of land is still farmed by us today. 
Later, Nicholas married Margarett Bennet, and they had four children; James, John, Joseph, and Margaret Mary. James, their first child, was born on the 6th of January 1858. James took over running the farm from his father and later married Bridget Wallace from Stamullen in Co. Meath. They went on to have nine children. The youngest of these children, James Joseph Jones, also known as Jimmy Jones, was born on the 1st of March 1918, seven months after his father James's death. Some years later, Jimmy's mother, Bridget, divided the house of Ivanhoe so that she could rent part of it to Irish tourists to benefit from Rush's newfound fame as a holiday destination. The newly divided house was named 3 & 4 Eden Terrace by Bridget to coincide with the adjoining Jones houses 1 & 2 Eden Terrace.
Jimmy grew up with his siblings and mother. The family milked cows that grazed over a mile and a half away on the cliffs of Dromonach. They paid a yearly rent for their cows to graze along with the other people from Rush village who had cows. From the age of seven, Jimmy would deliver milk early in the morning to the village people before serving as an altar boy at Rush church. Jimmy excelled at school, and it was around this time that he was offered a rare opportunity for a scholarship to higher education. He did not take the offer and never told his mother about it for fear of having to stay in school. Later Jimmy made a living selling vegetables in the Drogheda and Dublin corporation market. People at that time with produce for the Dublin market would leave Rush at midnight if they had a pony, and at 2.00 am if they had a horse to arrive at the market at the same time. People would walk alongside the cart on the way in rather than burden the draft animal with the extra weight. It was essential to arrive as early as possible to be in a good place in the queue for the produce auctions. Some of the vegetables Jimmy sold at the market included; cauliflower, cabbage, parsley, and spinach. In April of 1950, Jimmy married Betty Harford, who lived a short distance away from the harbour. Jimmy made a living market gardening, and together with his wife, went on to have 11 children. Betty died after a long illness on Christmas day 1971, at the age of 48. Jimmy persevered and took on the additional role of mother to his 11 children. His children would help with the farm work during their school years until they completed their education and moved on to careers outside of farming. One of the children, Dominic, stayed on helping Jimmy with the farm until he was old enough to take over. Dominic and his father continued farming a wide range of crops which now included mint. During the 1970s, Dominic decided to experiment more with herbs, growing borage, oregano, marjoram and hyssop. 
At the same time, in Ireland, air travel was becoming more affordable. As a result, people began to move away from holidaying in Ireland, instead choosing the warmer Mediterranean countries such as Spain and Portugal. This travelling exposed a lot of Irish people to Mediterranean foods. On returning to Ireland, people wanted to enjoy the Mediterranean style foods, including the herbs and spices that flavoured them. This sudden increased demand for herbs helped Dominic's business grow. In 1980, Dominic named his business Garden of Eden Herbs. The name comes from two different places, the first being the biblical Garden of Eden. The lesser-known second is the address at which the family farm is located, ''Eden Terrace''. The Garden of Eden Herbs logo is adapted from Adam & Eve, which is sculptured onto the east face of Muiredach's High Cross, located in Monasterboice, Co. Louth. The cross depicts different scenes from the bibles new and old testaments. 
Today, we are still farming from the same address at Eden Terrace, Rush, Co. Dublin, and our nursery in Duleek Co. Meath. Our product range has grown over the years to include more than 30 different herbs and baby leaf salads. We even have a store on Arran Street East, at the Dublin Corporation market, the very place where our forefathers used to sell products before us.