Livestock Farms & Ranches near Grass Valley, CA

Grass Valley

Family Friendly Farms is a Northern California family farm in Grass Valley that has ranched for over twenty years, offering 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb, free-range and pasture-raised chicken, and pasture-raised pork — no added hormones, antibiotics, corn, soy, or GMOs. The farm began at a local farmers market booth and still offers farmers-market prices through its online store, from individual cuts up to whole shares, plus home delivery and local pickup.

Grass Valley

Family Friendly Farms began over twenty years ago with a booth at a Grass Valley farmers market and a desire to raise naturally grown, humanely treated animals. The Northern California family farm sells 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb, pasture-raised pork, and free-range chicken — never any hormones, antibiotics, corn, soy, or GMOs — at farmers-market prices online, from single cuts to whole shares, with transparent at-cost shipping, home delivery, and local pickup.

Rough and Ready

Nevada City

First Rain Farm, established in 2012 at 2,500 feet in the Sierra Nevada foothills outside Nevada City, grows certified organic produce (CCOF) across 3.5 cultivated acres and 26 crop varieties using no-till practices since 2017, producing 90% of its fertility needs on-farm through animals and compost. The farm also runs a herd of 160 Nubian and Kiko goats offering land stewardship services — goat vegetation management, forest thinning, and prescribed burning — and sells at local farmers markets.

Nevada City

At 2,500 feet outside Nevada City, First Rain Farm grows CCOF-certified organic produce on 3.5 no-till acres, generating 90% of its fertility on-farm with animals and compost since its 2012 founding. Its herd of 160 Nubian and Kiko goats doubles as a land stewardship service for vegetation management, forest thinning, and prescribed burn support, and the farm's 26 crop varieties sell at local farmers markets.

Browns Valley

M&A Ranch is a small family-owned cattle ranch in Browns Valley, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, raising Angus cattle on the same property since 1980. The herd — bred with New Zealand Turihaua Angus and Akaushi Wagyu genetics — is 100% grass-fed and grass-finished on native and irrigated pastures with no grain, antibiotics, added hormones, or GMOs, sold as half-beef shares butchered at the ranch, typically through a waiting list.

Browns Valley

Established in 1980 in the Sierra Nevada foothills at Browns Valley, M&A Ranch has spent four decades refining grass-fed Angus genetics, blending New Zealand Turihaua Station bloodlines with Akaushi Wagyu. Calves are born and raised on the ranch on native and irrigated pasture — never grain, antibiotics, hormones, or insecticides — and sold as half-beef shares butchered at the ranch, usually through a first-come waiting list.