The animals he loves most
in the place he loves most.
Noah was born and raised on a small farm in Central Massachusetts. He fell in love with the rolling pastures of New England, and started his own farming endeavors on ArkHive Farm in Chester, NH. He raised every species of animal imaginable (pigs, chickens, goats, peackocks… it truly was an Ark) until he came across Waygu cows.
New England is home to some of the best restaurants in the world (ask any foodie about their favorite spots in Portsmouth, Newburyport, Boston, and Burlington). As Noah established his early relationships with some of the top chefs in the Northeast, he found himself asking the same question over and over.
“What kind of meat do you want most?”
The most common answer?
“Waygu.”
Noah dug into his budding network of New England farmer friends. He uncovered a number of generations-old, established farmers who were raising pure blood Waygu beef in the fields of Vermont and New Hampshire. He was blown away. The highest quality beef, raised right here in New England. And yet, New England’s top chefs were paying huge premiums to ship Waygu meat from larger meat production facilities in the midwest.
Every good solution comes from first seeing the problem. Noah realized that the supply of beautiful, healthy, grass-fed Waygu existed right here where we live. And the demand from top-notch chefs and locally-minded individual consumers was high. There just wasn’t the network in place to connect the two.
The Arkhive Farm network exists to connect the highest quality meat with folks who want to eat well, live well, and support their local farmers.
First, the health of our livestock.
Then, the health of local farms.
Then, the health of local people, families, and restaurants.
And around it goes.
The Arkhive Farm network was established to support the prosperity of New England agriculture and the highest standards of meat production and culinary excellence.