Shipley Farm

The Shipley Farm, a Century Farm in Watauga County, North Carolina. Their story began in 1872, when Nathan and Sarah Shipley purchased 115 acres of farmland beside Sarah’s family’s farmhouse in Vilas, NC. Since then, the Shipley family has been breeding and raising premium quality beef on the family farm in the heart of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. W.E. Shipley, Nathan’s son and R.G.’s father, brought the first registered Hereford bull into NC from Virginia in 1897, walking the bull behind a horse-drawn wagon.

In 2013, inspired by R.G.’s desire for a new adventure at 101 years old, they ventured out from raising livestock and began producing finished beef. Their cattle graze on lush, clover-rich mountain pastures which produces beef with higher levels of nutrients than conventional feedlot beef production. The cattle are supplemented with a vegetable based feed and dry aged for the best flavor, texture, tenderness, and marbling.

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