Meat Farms & Ranches near Chester, NJ

Neshanic Station

Vacchiano Farm has been a family enterprise since 1983, working 100 acres in New Jersey's Skylands region — 15 acres of vegetables with 25+ tomato varieties, an 11-acre vineyard in the storied Warren County wine appellation, and free-roaming beef, lamb, chickens, ducks, and heritage turkeys. The huge farmhouse store on Route 202 in Readington adds chef-prepared meals, sauces, deli sandwiches, and catering, with picnic grounds overlooking the fields.

Washington

Real farmers working a real farm since 1983, the Vacchiano family carries on generations-old Italian farming traditions across northwest New Jersey — harvesting fifteen acres of vegetables, tending American hybrid wine grapes, and raising beef, lamb, poultry, and heritage-breed turkeys on vegetarian, high-protein feed. A fixture of northern New Jersey farmers markets since 1992, the farm also runs a production kitchen turning out all-natural prepared meals with no preservatives.

Asbury

Cotton Cattle Company is a regenerative operation in Asbury, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, delivering grassfed and grass-finished beef, heritage pork, and pasture-raised chicken and turkey to doorsteps across ten Northeast states — a la carte or by subscription box, with beef and pork shares from 50 to 400 pounds. Shop the Kash Valley Farm Store Thursdays and Fridays, or find them at the Summit, Hoboken, and Easton farmers markets.

Hopewell borough

Hopewell

Beechtree Farm in Hopewell, New Jersey marks 40 years of grass-fed goodness — grassfed beef, lamb, pastured pork and poultry, eggs, handcrafted soap, and sheepskins, founded by Lucia Stout Huebner and her late husband Charlie. The farm's cattle even feature in carbon-sequestration research, and its stand appears Saturdays at the West Windsor, Pennington, and seasonal Yardley farmers markets.

Vernon Township

Valley Farmers Cooperative & Farm Store in Vernon Township, New Jersey sells pastured pork, grass-fed beef and lamb, and pastured poultry from member farms — order online for weekend pickup or browse the store on Highway 94. Bulk beef deposits, steaks, roasts, offal, and seasonal sales round out the co-op's offerings.

Bangor

Harvest Home Meats sells 100% grass-fed beef from the DiFebo family's Harvest Home Farms in Bangor, Pennsylvania — winner of the state's first Leopold Conservation Award in 2018 and champion of PASA's inaugural Grass-fed Beef Cook-Off in 2008. Cattle graze diverse cool-season perennial pasture with no grain, hormones, or antibiotics ever, sold by the quarter, half, whole, or custom package: healthy soil, clean air and water, healthy cattle, healthy people.

Easton

Klein Farms Dairy & Creamery in Forks Township, Easton has been in business since 1935, now run by third-generation farmers Layne and Beth Klein on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. The farm store, open 8 to 7 daily, sells raw milk, gourmet mozzarella and aged cheeses, Greek-style yogurt and drinkable Smoogurt, brown eggs, farm-raised beef and pork, and homemade ice cream from the Happy Holstein stand.