Open Spaces’ artist partner Brad DeFrees is the talent behind BisonFeather Designs. His vivid, land-based paintings convey the magic of the land where these ciders originate. His images give a special life to our labels, tasting notes, notecards and this website.

Melissa is the consulting farmer-educator for Enfield Elementary’s amazing farm school program. Every student works with the farm program each week, taking advantage of Enfield’s rural campus for nature journaling, orchard management, gardening and ecosystem analyses.

Eve's Cidery is a small family farm producing naturally fermented ciders from our own organically-grown fruit and from wild-foraged apples and pears in the hills of Van Etten, located at the intersection of the Finger Lakes and the Northern Appalachian Plateau, traditional lands of the Cayuga Nation and Haudenosaunee Confederacy, in upstate New York. Open Spaces always features Eve’s cider at Pop Up Bars.

The Full Plate Farm Collective is a a unique multi-farm CSA striving to connect people, farms and food in a dynamic, energizing and mutually supportive community. We bring together food from Remembrance Farm and Stick & Stone Farm, our founding farms, as well as our network of other local growers. Together we grow over 100 acres of organic vegetables which we offer through summer and winter CSA shares in the Ithaca area.  Open Spaces distributes our EGG CSA through the Full Plate and supports the subsidized CSA program with Pop Up Farm Bars.

Hemlock Grove Farm in West Danby is the certified organic home farm of Melissa’s mentor Brian Caldwell. HGF’s farming philosophy focuses on the safest growing methods available, to protect the health of apple eaters and the natural environment alike. Hemlock Grove fruit is part of Open Spaces APPLE CSA, growing apples, pears, chestnuts, hazelnuts, pawpaws, and persimmons.
Hemlock Grove fruit is part of Open Spaces APPLE CSA.

John Stiteler’s homestead in Newfield is Laughing Willow Farm, and is host to a sweet apple orchard among other trees. Laughing Willow eggs are found in Open Spaces’ EGG CSA.

Oechsner Farms is a certified organic grain farm in Newfield, New York. We farm 1200 acres of corn, winter and spring wheat, buckwheat, rye, soybeans, clover, hay and cover crops throughout Tompkins County in the Finger Lakes. We process, clean, and ship food-grade grains ready for small flour mills, bakeries, malthouses, distilleries and breweries to use. Soil health is also one of our top priorities. Oechsner Farms contribute eggs to the CSA, Melissa manages their apple trees and are great neighbors.

Grit & Henry Phelps hand-built Steinhaus Farm [ˈʃtaɪ̯nhaʊ̯s] in Mecklenberg one stone building at a time. They and their two kiddos love to grow, produce and share simple clean food. Steinhaus eggs are part of Open Spaces’ EGG CSA