Elizabeth Ryan developed a passion for agriculture from earlier generations and is CEO of Breezy Hill Orchard.
Developed for and sold to thousands of New Yorkers in the Union Square Green Market, their products include apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, and the value-added products that come from these fruits. The most significant of these value-added products is draft cider, for which the company aggressively raised private equity to launch a national product.
Elizabeth Ryan is a graduate of Cornell University.
Well, in a nutshell, why I got started is I come from a long line of farmers that skipped a generation. My mother was the oldest of ten children in Iowa, in an operation that was started by my great-great grandfather, and she did not want to farm. She viewed agriculture as a fairly wretched lifest...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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