Beekman boys biography
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Call it serendipity in the face of adversity. In 2008, Brent Ridge, a geriatric doctor and former Vice President of Healthy Living at Martha Stewart Omnimedia, and his partner Josh Kilmer-Purcell, a bestselling author (I Am Not Myself These Days, The Bucolic Plague) and advertising executive whose clients included such mega-brands as Target and Absolut, lost their jobs. They moved to the historic, 60-acre Beekman 1802 Farm, in Sharon Springs, about 40 minutes west of Albany, which they had purchased a year earlier as a weekend getaway. A decade later, they now oversee what NASDAQ calls “one of the fastest growing lifestyle brands in the country” and have breathed new life into their rural community.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge | Photo by Christian Watson
Buying the Farm
“We were living in New York City, but we liked to go apple picking in upstate New York,” recalls Ridge, “We would open a map, see where our finger landed, and that’s where we went. In 2006, our finger landed on Schoharie County. On our way out of , we drove by this farmhouse with a ‘for sale’ sign. At that time, you could get a 0% mortgage, so we took out $1 million mortgage and bought it.”
After purchasing the Beekman farm, on weekends Ridge and Kilmer-Purcell took the train from Penn Stati
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The Fabulous Beekman Boys
American reality TV series
The Fabulous Beekman Boys is a reality television show produced in the United States by World of Wonder Productions. The series followed Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his husband Brent Ridge as they learned how to become farmers and launch their lifestyle brand, Beekman 1802. Brent, a physician who previously worked for Martha Stewart Omnimedia, lives at the farm full-time, while Josh, a New York Times bestselling author, commutes from their apartment in New York City on the weekends. The show originally aired on Planet Green, one of the Discovery Networks, but was acquired by Cooking Channel, a network owned by Scripps Network Interactive in 2012.
Touted as a "gay Green Acres",[1] the series chronicled the couple's trials and tribulations as novice farmers, aided by their caretaker and resident farmer John Hall, or "Farmer John." Hall brought his goats to the Beekman Farm shortly after Ridge and Kilmer-Purcell purchased it in 2007. Also featured is Polka Spot, the farm's llama. Other residents of Sharon Springs, New York are also included in the cast, including Doug Plummer and Garth Roberts, owners of the American Hotel.
On August 9, 2010, Planet Green announced that The Fabulous Beekman Boys had been r