About

Ryder Farm by RE Endeavors seeks to identify and share the vast resources, beauty, and potential of Ryder Farm with a variety of audiences—from family gatherings, to artists, to providing hyper-local vegetables to the Hudson Valley area, and more.

With wide open spaces and cozy guest rooms, retreats at Ryder Farm offer artists the opportunity to conspire with nature and each other to find their creative inspiration.

HISTORY OF RYDER FARM

  • The land now known as Ryder Farm in Brewster, New York was first home to Indigenous peoples known as the Wappingers.

  • The Ryder Family begins to farm the land. Today, Ryder Farm is one of the oldest organic family farms on the East Coast.

  • Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Ryder Farm housed a variety of operations, including a working farm with a general store, a dairy farm, and a leisure farm with a tennis court.

  • In the late 1970s, the Ryders’ farming tradition was reinvigorated by family member Hall Gibson, followed by Betsey and John Ryder. Under their stewardship, the farm became an early adopter of the organic farming movement.

    In 1976 Ryder Farm becomes one of the original participating farms in New York City’s Union Square Greenmarket.

  • SPACE on Ryder Farm was founded with the two-fold mission of providing time and space for artists and innovators to develop new work, while contributing to the sustainability and resourceful preservation of Ryder Farm.

    In 2019, Betsey Ryder retired after 40 years of growing organic vegetables, flowers and herbs at Ryder Farm. SPACE took on the agricultural operations at Ryder Farm.

    In 2024, SPACE put its operations on indefinite hiatus.