Nature's Way from Pasture to Plate
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Alhambra Valley Beef
Located in the scenic Alhambra Valley / Briones Valley Agricultural Preserve, our operation takes pride in raising 100% grass-fed cattle in a natural, stress-free environment near Berkeley and Martinez, California. Our livestock consists of Angus and Angus-Hereford crossbreeds that thrive in uncrowded conditions with abundant grazing pastures. We focus on quality production without resorting to hormones or additives to enhance growth.
Avenales Ranch
Our ranch has been stewarding 18,000 acres on California's central coast since 1875, spanning six generations. We've been Certified Organic by Organic Certifiers from Ventura and G.A.P. 4 certified since 2018. Our sustainable practices focus on raising black Angus and Hereford cross animals without hormones, antibiotics, or pesticides. Our organic, grass-fed and finished beef is dry-aged for 27 days, offering traditional quality reminiscent of past generations.
AZ Grass Raised Beef Company
We provide 100% Arizona grass-raised and grass-finished beef. Our cattle spend their entire lives foraging for natural food without hormones, antibiotics, grain, or time on feedlots. Our cattle graze year-round on natural grasses, water, and wildflowers across millions of acres of ranchland. We employ horseback management and utilize windmills and solar power for sustainable ranch operations, resulting in beef that captures the essence of Arizona sunshine in every bite.
Bear River Valley Beef
We are a family-operated ranch in Humboldt County, Northern California dedicated to providing premium tender beef directly to customers with a satisfaction guarantee. Our All Natural 100% Grass Fed Beef delivers a rich, robust flavor distinct from conventional beef, with leanness comparable to skinless chicken and wild deer. Our cattle are born and raised on our property without grains, added hormones, antibiotics, or animal by-products.
Bernal Properties
Established in 1947, we are a second-generation family ranch in Morgan Hill specializing in grass-fed beef through direct-to-consumer sales. Our cattle roam freely, consuming only naturally-grown grasses and drinking from natural springs, without antibiotics or hormones. Annually, we raise and sell 12 grass-fed Angus cattle in whole and half portions. We schedule sales of four animals each in August, September, and October.
Big Bluff Ranch
Situated twenty-five miles from the nearest Northern California town or freeway, our ranch is nestled in the oak woodland savannahs of the Coastal Range foothills. For us, agriculture isn't just an occasional choice but a conscious lifestyle commitment to sustainability and developing a balanced ecosystem that benefits both consumers and the land. We provide grass-fed, pasture-raised beef, lamb, pork, and chicken.
Big Sur Bovine
We operate a 100% grass-fed and grass-finished ranch. Our cattle have always lived in Monterey County under single ownership, with the owner focusing on cow/calf production while also selling premium calves directly to discerning consumers. We're currently accepting bulk orders for late spring delivery. Our beef is aged for 10 days, then broken down into smaller cuts, vacuum sealed, and frozen.
Bodega Pastures Sheep
We offer grassfed lamb and a variety of organic wool products including yarn, roving, batting, wool comforters, pillows, and sheepskins.
Bradley and Son Grass Fed Beef
We produce premium grass-finished beef year-round. As a cow/calf producer, we select the finest specimens from our 100% Black Angus herd for our beef program. We offer every cut imaginable and provide sides of beef throughout the year. Meat production is our specialty, and we know precisely how to deliver high-quality beef. We take tremendous pride in our work and the quality of our products.
Casey Redtail Ranch
We provide delicious, nutritious 100% grass-fed and finished beef. Based in beautiful Southern Monterey County, CA, our Angus cross cattle are raised in a natural, free-range setting. They receive humane treatment and are never given antibiotics, growth hormones, or exposed to pesticides or herbicides. We offer three purchasing options: The Sampler (approximately 41 pounds), 1/4 Share (approximately 91 pounds), or 1/2 Share (approximately 182 pounds).
Chaffin Family Orchards
Located in Oroville, California, we've been supplying local consumers with farm-fresh products since 1924. Our Grassfed Angus-Based Beef Cattle serve dual purposes—managing our orchards and grazing on annual grasses across our mountain pastures. We harvest our grassfed beef exclusively from rapidly growing green grasses to maximize healthy fat content, resulting in uncompromised quality meat raised in the most natural, low-stress environment.
Chileno Valley Natural Beef
We are a family-owned business in West Marin, California, operating on a ranch that has been in our family since 1862. For the past three years, we've specialized in grass-finished natural beef. We take pride in offering beef from cattle that have never experienced feedlots or industrial processing facilities. The only grain they consume comes from naturally seeded grasses in our pastures.
Connolly Ranch, Inc.
Located in southern San Joaquin and Alameda Counties, our family-owned and operated cattle ranch has been providing all-natural, all grass-fed beef directly to consumers for generations. For over 135 years spanning five generations, we've maintained responsible land stewardship and collaborated with government agencies and universities on habitat restoration and research initiatives.
Diamond Mountain Ranch
We are a family-operated ranch in Northern California specializing in 100% Pasture Raised, Grass Fed and Finished meats for consumers seeking transparency about their food sources. Our mission centers on continuously improving our land for future generations of animals. We raise 100% pastured and grass-fed bison, cattle (including Red and Black Angus, American Wagyu, and Lowline Angus), and yak.
Engler Beef
Over the past decade, we've selectively bred our cattle specifically for grass finishing. At our Sonora, California headquarters, we carefully manage irrigated pastures using a soil-based, regenerative approach. Our lush warm-season grasses and legumes, combined with rotational grazing and adequate pasture rest periods, create an ideal, holistic environment for our cattle. You'll find no better grass-finished beef in the region.
Fair Oaks Ranch
Located in Paso Robles, California, we provide Angus grass-fed beef directly 'From our fresh pastures to your plate!' If you're seeking delicious, juicy, tender, and 100% natural Angus beef without added hormones or antibiotics, our beef features 100% free-range pasturing on sweet clovers, filaree, chicory, and native wild oat forages.
Family Friendly Farms
Established in 2008, we produce Grass-Fed Beef, Pasture-Raised Pork, Meadow-Grass Lamb, and Free-Range Chicken without corn, soy, GMOs, hormones, or antibiotics. This allows us to create healthy food that can be barbecued and enjoyed without limitations. We consistently deliver nutritious meat containing ample unsaturated fat for tenderness, with exceptional nutrition and flavor.
Ferndale Farms
We are a small, diversified family-owned grazing operation in Humboldt County, California. Our philosophy is simple: we transform sunlight into protein! We cultivate green clover and grasses to produce 100% range and pasture-raised, all-natural beef, lamb, and goat meat. Our commitment lies in farming harmoniously with nature, raising contented, healthy animals, and producing quality food.
First Light Farms
We are a small New Zealand company dedicated to producing delicious meat, raised properly, by people who genuinely care. Our beef has been recognized as 'the best beef in the world' by Forbes, and we've earned four gold medals at The World Steak Challenge. These accolades reflect our ongoing commitment to producing the world's finest tasting beef.
Fouch Farms
We are a family farm committed to sustainable, natural, and humane farming practices. We raise grass-fed/finished cattle, free-range chickens and eggs, pastured pork, and pastured goats. All our animals spend 100% of their lives on pasture, receive no antibiotics or growth hormones, and are raised following better-than-organic principles. We believe in farming as naturally as possible and pursue a sustainable and biodynamic lifestyle.
Fox Sparrow Farm
We operate a small, family-run, grass-based farm in the rolling pastureland just north of Petaluma, California. Our specialties include heritage breed duck eggs, pastured pork, and 100% grass-fed lamb. We're committed to raising healthy animals ethically, without chemicals or confinement, in ways that benefit the natural ecology of the land.
Freestone Ranch
We are a small, family-owned, ecologically sound collaboration with the land in Western Sonoma County, CA. The Gay and Brady families are reestablishing our farm-family roots from Ohio and Utah for future generations. We raise moderate-framed Black Angus with strong grassland genetics on beautiful fog-kissed hills near the Pacific Ocean.
Grandad Farms
Based in Emmett, Idaho, we're dedicated to producing pork, chicken, turkey, and eggs that customers can feel confident consuming. Like many people, we—Mark and Sophie Ellison—sought better quality food for our family. After researching America's food system and discovering that conventional production methods often yield nutritionally deficient food, we began our farming journey to produce food properly.
Hat Creek Grown
Situated in a picturesque valley between Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen in northeastern California, our cattle spend their entire lives grazing on grass. We've selectively bred our cattle for superior genetics that excel at marbling and converting grass and sunlight into delicious, natural beef. They enjoy humane treatment and free-range living throughout their lives.
Hearst Ranch Beef
Since 1865, the Hearst family has raised cattle on the rich, sustainable native grasslands of California's Central Coast. Our cattle are grass-fed and grass-finished and humanely raised. We never administer growth hormones or antibiotics to our animals. The result is sustainably produced grass-fed beef that is as memorable and natural as the surrounding landscape.
Hidden Villa
We are a small farm and wilderness education non-profit located in Silicon Valley and the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We operate an organic vegetable CSA and raise chickens, turkeys, pigs, and sheep. We offer lamb, pork, chicken, Thanksgiving turkeys, and various wool products. Our lambs are grass-fed while our poultry and pigs are raised on pasture and fed organic grain.
Humboldt Grassfed Beef
We produce cattle on California's North Coast. The extended growing season in this region provides a unique opportunity to raise premium grass-fed beef and supply our markets with fresh products weekly throughout the year. Our cattle are selected for specific traits including temperament, conformation, and disease resistance. We raise them following a strict quality assurance program without antibiotics, synthetic hormones, or other feed additives commonly used in commercial cattle operations.
John's Natural Products
We provide local consumers with high-quality grass-fed beef raised on our second-generation family-owned and operated ranch in Northern California's Gold Country. Our cattle graze on well-maintained pastures dotted with native oak trees and never experience confinement in crowded, unsanitary feed yards. They live peaceful, natural lives. We care for them using humane, low-stress methods to ensure optimal health and nutrition.
Lewis Cattle Company
Located in the foothills of El Dorado County east of the Sacramento Valley and just miles from California's gold discovery site in Coloma, our family ranch encompasses approximately 1000 acres of natural grasslands, conifer forests, and year-round water from Sierra Nevada snowpack via Greenwood Creek. Our family has ranched and farmed this land since the early 1960s and since 2011, we've raised grass-fed and finished Angus beef for friends and families.
The Lost Coast Ranch®
Situated on slopes overlooking the Pacific Ocean and straddling the Mattole River in Humboldt County, California, we're located at the northern end of BLM's Lost Coast Trail. Our pastures maintain green feed year-round thanks to abundant winter rainfall and periodic summer fog. Temperatures remain moderate, rarely dropping below freezing or exceeding 80°F in summer.
Marin Sun Farms
We represent a network of farms in the Northern California Foodshed. Our commitment centers on producing local, humanely-raised, healthy meats for our community. We recognize that holistic management of grazing lands is essential for maintaining ecosystem stability and function. We raise 100% Grassfed & Pasture-Raised beef, lamb, goat, pork, poultry, and what many consider the finest eggs available.
Markegard Family Grass-Fed
We provide our community with locally born, raised, and processed grass-fed beef, lamb, pastured pork, and herdshares through a community supported agriculture program. Individuals and families can purchase shares of grass-finished beef, lamb, and pastured pork, or join our buying club with weekly deliveries year-round. We maintain certification with the American Grassfed Association.
Orvis Cattle Company
We maintain California's oldest registered Hereford herd, established in 1918. Our ranch has been family-owned since 1873 and has been placed in a conservation easement with the California Rangeland Trust. This ensures our family will continue the ranching tradition for generations on the historic Snow Ranch, located 11 miles east of Farmington. As seedstock producers for commercial operations throughout the Western states, we understand beef.
Paicines Ranch
We focus on regenerating ecosystems while producing delicious, healthy, nutritious food and distributing it locally. We implement holistic management and planned grazing across 7500 acres of organic crop and range land. Our beef cattle, sheep, turkeys, pigs, and chickens move throughout the landscape, helping increase biodiversity, build healthy soil, and sequester carbon to mitigate climate change.
Primal Pastures
We believe that nature knows best. That's why we proudly offer a complete line of pasture-raised meats: pasture-raised beef, lamb, and pork, certified organic-fed, corn/soy/GMO-free pastured chicken, wild, local, sustainably caught fish, and raw, local, unfiltered honey. All our meats are genuinely antibiotic-free and rotationally grazed to benefit the environment year after year.
Richards Grassfed Beef
The Richards family's agricultural heritage spans over 70 years, beginning when Thomas H. Richards Sr. purchased the first 680-acre parcel. Four generations later, we continue raising cattle on Richards Ranch, which now encompasses over 6,600 acres of foothill countryside. Richards Grassfed Beef holds certification from the American Grassfed Association and was the first beef company on the west coast to receive the Savory Institute's Ecological Outcome Verified certificate.
Salmon Creek Ranch
We operate a family-owned 400-acre ranch on the Sonoma County coast, approximately 90 minutes north of San Francisco and 2 miles from the ocean. We offer pasture-raised, 100% grass-fed beef and goat meat, seasonal goose and duckling, and duck eggs. Our pasture and duck eggs are certified organic by California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). We never use hormones or growth enhancers, and all animals are harvested and processed in USDA-inspected facilities.
The Shepherd Boy
I provide natural vegetation management services in the Sierra Nevada foothills. My sheep and I enjoy a semi-nomadic lifestyle, creating healthy landscapes and reducing fire danger through managed grazing. My sheep are Dorper and Katahdin hair breeds, known for their mild-flavored meat. Their diet consists of diverse forages, occasionally supplemented with grass hay. I handle them using low-stress techniques, and they never receive antibiotics, hormones, or vaccines.
SonRise Ranch
We offer delicious, dry-aged, grass-fed and grass-finished beef, true non-GMO fed, free-range pork, and pastured chicken to the San Diego region. We implement rotational grazing methods, 'Chig-tractors,' and non-conventional ranching techniques to produce genuine free-range animals for Southern California. Our methods may seem peculiar, unusual, and unconventional to traditional producers around us, yet they prove extremely productive and environmentally superior.
Stemple Creek Ranch
We operate a family-owned and managed cattle ranch in Marin County, California. We raise 100% all-natural grass-fed Angus beef and lamb on our pastureland just miles from the Pacific Ocean. Our animals eat organic grass and clover and never receive artificial hormones, growth promotants, or antibiotics. We typically harvest between May and July annually, depending on grass quality and spring rainfall.
Swift Kick in the Buttes
We provide high-quality, nutrient-dense, delicious lamb, chicken, and turkey, directly from our farm in the Sutter Buttes foothills to your kitchen. We deliver throughout the Yuba-Sutter area down to Sacramento, with quarterly deliveries to the Bay Area. We always welcome visitors to the farm for order pickup and tours—just call for directions.
Tara Firma Farms
We are a sustainable organic (not certified) diversified farm providing healthy beyond-organic food to local families from San Francisco to Santa Rosa. We're renowned for our pasture-raised meats including Grass Fed and Finished Beef, Pasture-raised Chicken, Eggs, and Pork. We also offer seasonal fruits and vegetables grown in our bio-intensive garden.
Tawanda Farms
We proudly produce all-natural lamb and beef. As owners, we also manage and operate the business. We're committed to sustainable agriculture that yields excellent meat products while providing stress-free lives for our animals. All feed consumed by our animals is grown on our 120-acre farm, combining irrigated mixed grass pasture with dryland grasses and forbs. Sheep and cattle roam year-round, self-selecting across our pastures and hillsides.
The T.O. Cattle Company
We produce 'Morris Grassfed Beef,' 100-percent grass-finished beef sold as split halves. (A split half yields approximately 90 pounds of boned steaks, roasts, and ground beef.) Our cattle are born and raised in California's coastal ranges. They enjoy a natural diet of fresh grass, forbs, and legumes, clean water, and, as Julie notes, better views than most humans enjoy! We use neither synthetic hormones nor antibiotics: our animals grow only as rapidly as their genetics and the rangeland permit.
Turner Grass Fed Beef
We are a sustainable, family-owned ranch producing local, humanely raised, healthy meats for our customers. Our Angus cattle are 100% pasture-raised using traditional organic practices in Petaluma, California. They are grass-fed and grass-finished, never receiving antibiotics, growth hormones, or grain. We sell quarters, halves, or whole steers directly to customers. Our beef is dry-aged, custom cut, and vacuum sealed to ensure maximum freshness.
Idaho Pastures Beef
Idaho Pastures Beef is a family-owned operation dedicated to raising 100% grass-fed and finished beef in the pristine mountain pastures of Idaho. Our cattle graze on diverse native grasses and are never given antibiotics, hormones, or grain. We practice rotational grazing to improve soil health and sequester carbon, contributing to a healthier ecosystem.
Treasure Valley Farm
Located in Idaho's fertile Treasure Valley, our farm specializes in pasture-raised poultry, eggs, and seasonal vegetables. We use regenerative farming practices that build soil health while producing nutrient-dense food. Our chickens and turkeys have daily access to fresh pasture, resulting in exceptional flavor and nutrition.
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Grass-fed means that animals are raised primarily on pasture and fed a diet of grass and forage, rather than grain. This results in meat that is typically leaner, higher in beneficial nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids, and produced in a more environmentally sustainable way.
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