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.
Four years ago, I got interested in doing something else and I was really driven, this is the wrong way to start a business, but I was driven by a lot of interest in the product itself. I was product driven and I wanted to do something fabulous. I wanted to do this line extension of these highly f...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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