Josh is a former advertising executive turned New York Times best-selling author. Brent is a physician turned media executive, though now both of us consider ourselves farmers, plain and simple.

Our company, BEEKMAN 1802, is an integrated media and lifestyle company devoted to the artisanal, the hand-made, and to the belief that each season gives us cause for celebration. The company is centered around the 200 year old Beekman Farm in upstate NY originally built by William Beekman, the first judge of Schoharie County, NY, and at the turn of the 19th century one of the most successful merchants in central New York.

BEEKMAN 1802 is committed to environmental sustainability, supporting local micro-economies, and developing debt-free business models.

When we “bought the farm”, we knew that our ultimate goal was to make it biodynamic. While that is a long-term project, we initially started thinking (and making) all the things we could using goat milk. The soaps turned out so well, that the business took off before we really even realized what was happening.

All of our soap are hand-made and hand-wrapped just as they would have been made and wrapped 200 years ago. Of course, what makes the soap “special” is the quality of the main ingredient—the goat milk. Our goats graze the land of our organically managed farm and drink the mineral-rich spring water that once made our village of Sharon Springs world famous. All of our linens are hand-woven on a loom and our stationery turned out on a hand-powered letter-press