Co-founders of media company Edible Communities seek to sell $3.5 million ranch near Silver City

Sky Fire Ranch

Oct 9, 2025

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A ranch isn’t often a place where you find yourself doing yoga inside your spa or developing a photograph in a dark room while listening to the bugling sounds of up to 100 elk outside in the fall.

But you might at the 60-acre Sky Fire Ranch, said associate broker Kevin Branum.

“It’s an extraordinary property; definitely one of a kind,” said Branum, who is co-listing the property with Greg Liddle, both representing national real estate company Hayden Outdoors.

Nestled at 200 Meadow Lane in Mimbres, Sky Fire Ranch anchors a quiet community 40 minutes east of Silver City. Hayden Outdoors listed the property for $3.5 million in May, after another brokerage attempted to sell it for six months at a price above $4 million, Branum said.

The property features a three-bedroom, two-bathroom main home spanning more than 3,400 square feet and a roughly 1,000-square-foot guest home, which was completed in September 2024, according to the listing.

Three sets of owners have lived at the property, built in 2000. Its current owners extensively renovated the property and added several new outbuildings.

Today, the property comes complete with a cabin, gym and yoga spa studio, pottery studio, dark room, an RV garage, a former horse barn-turned-studio and entertaining space, an 8,000-square-foot Zen garden and several storage sheds.

The Gila National Forest borders a good portion of the property, which comes with five perimeter gates offering direct access to miles of hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding trails.

It was the views of the Sapillo Creek valley that won over Tracey Ryder, who purchased the property with her partner Carole Topalian in 2022.

“It’s just not like any other part of the state,” Ryder said. “It was green and lush and gorgeous. We couldn’t believe it existed; it was just so beautiful.”

Ryder and Topalian are the co-founders of Edible Communities, a media company with a network of more than 75 local food magazines across North America.

The pair were living part-time in California and New Mexico and owned a property next door to Sky Fire Ranch when they made an offer on the property roughly 10 years ago, but the previous owners weren’t ready to sell at that time. When it hit the market for about $2.3 million in 2022, the Edible co-founders quickly made their move.

“We always wanted to own it, and we knew it would only be like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Ryder said.

Ryder’s favorite spot on the property is the main home’s chef’s kitchen, which features a large island and a farmhouse-style sink. Topalian, a critically acclaimed photographer, spent a lot of her time in the property’s dark room, developing photographs that have been exhibited in more than 80 shows across the world, Ryder said.

The pair would spend the rest of their days at Sky Fire Ranch if they could, but they are moving to Santa Fe to access more services for Ryder’s mother, who also lives on the property and has dementia.

“It’s offered us an amazing landscape to do projects and enjoy the peace and quiet,” Ryder said. “It’s a great family retreat and I hope someone else’s family gets to enjoy it as much as ours has.”