About Us

Open Spaces…

…CSA: Organic Apples, Eggs and seasonal turkeys

…Ag & Ecology Education for kiddos with the Enfield Elementary Equitable and Edible Farm School

…Farm Bar: Featuring farmed fruit sober options and well produced booze from small Finger Lakes cideries and wineries

…Cider is a tiny, pending project foraged and fermented thanks to the bounty of edge lands.

…Community is a collection of professional and personal relationships focused on equity in ecological agriculture.

Melissa Madden

Open Spaces’ founder+ runner of things, etc., Melissa lives in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State on Seneca and Cayuga Nation land. She is a farmer, elementary school educator, advocate for food ecology and eager learner. You can reach her here.

 

Collaborators

  • Eve's Cidery

    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.

  • Redbyrd Orchard Cider

    Redbyrd Orchard Cider is a small cidery with Certified Biodynamic managed orchards nestled in the rolling hills of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, on the traditional Gayogohó:no lands of the Haudenosaunee. We grow heirloom, wild seedling, and cider apples to produce distinct hand-crafted orchard based ciders. Redbyrd Orchard Cider has been making cider for the public since 2010 and planted our first orchards in 2003.

  • BisonFeathers Designs

    Our 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 site!