About This Farm

Skip Bennett was raised in the Island Creek neighborhood of Duxbury in a family that has been a fixture here since the town’s founding in 1637. The son of a lobsterman, Skip spent years working on our Bay digging mussels, razor clams, and steamers. After college in the early 1990’s he bought some of New England’s earliest clam seed from a hatchery on Cape Cod and decided to try his hand at growing quahogs—he was hooked. After all of his clams died, he moved onto oysters. For eight years Skip was