Garden of Eve Farm Brewery

About

Chris and Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht founded Garden of Eve organic farm in 2001, dedicated to providing delicious organic vegetables, fruits and beautiful flowers and to “making changes in the world by living them.” Chris grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. He spent ten years in the world of clean water advocacy, working as an organizer and manager for the nonprofit group Citizens Campaign for the Environment. He graduated from SUNY Cobleskill with a degree in Geology. Eve worked on horse farms and had a vegetable garden as a kid, and always sought to spend most of her time outdoors. While starting the farm, Eve worked as a land preservation advocate with the North Fork Environmental Council and as Principal Planner for the Town of Southampton. She holds a BA from Harvard in Environmental Science and a MS in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Chris and Eve met in 2000 and together they started a large garden on about 1/4 acre of land in Riverhead, Long Island which they worked together on evenings and weekends after coming home from their full-time jobs. Invited to sell some extra produce (zucchini!) at a local farmers market they made $40 and were launched on their farming careers. Since then they have expanded and now grow 50 acres of certified organic vegetables, flowers, raise 1000 pastured laying hens, and oversee almost 20 farm team members. Garden of Eve sells produce through an on-farm Farm Market, 4 farmers markets, and nearly 1,000 households participating in their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs at 20 locations in New York City and on Long Island. Forest Kaplan-Walbrecht in 2005 and Shira in 2007.