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.
The backbone of this business has been the retail that we do in New York City. This farm, Breezy Hill Orchard, was one of the founding farms of Union Square Green Market, a farmer's market that is really considered a flagship in the United States and it gave us an opportunity to do a pretty substan...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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