Who We are

It started back in 2015 when Co-Founders Will Peckham and Walker Lourie hatched the idea of starting a shellfish farm – of updating tradition, farming regeneratively, and doing good & well. They couldn’t kick the idea.

Now as we approach our tenth season, we’re happy to report still that we’re a bunch of perseverant, salty, stubborn, optimistic shellfish farmers. We love this work, the industry, our environment and community.

West Robins Team

 
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Will Peckham

Co-Founder & Farmer 

Will was born in Damariscotta, Maine and grew up sailing with his family between Coastal Maine and the Abacos. It was then that he fell hard for all things briny and beautiful. An economics degree from Middlebury, a fateful conservation finance internship in Montana and a few furious years on Wall Street sparked an interest in business but didn’t douse his passion for pursuing the marriage of profit and purpose.

Jack Healey

Director of South Fork Operations

Jack grew up in Southampton, New York and attended Elon University, graduating with a degree in Environmental Studies in 2022. Jack joined West Robins full time in 2023 after working part-time with the Company during his college years.

Outside of work, Jack volunteers with the North Sea Fire Department, is an FAA certified drone pilot and an avid fisherman and duck hunter.

Walker Lourie

Co-Founder & Farmer Emeritus

Walker grew up in Vermont, passing his days catching bugs and skinning knees. Eventually trading snow for salt, he landed a fateful summer internship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution while studying at Hamilton College. Five days after submitting his thesis on the impact of global warming on crassostrea virginica, he showed up in boots to the Fishers Island Oyster Farm.