Meat Farms & Ranches near Hackettstown, NJ

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.

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.

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.

Sussex

Green Valley Farms in Wantage, New Jersey — faith, family, farming since 1996 — raises USDA-certified all-natural beef born and raised on the farm, grass-fed and grain-finished with no hormones or antibiotics. The farm market and creamery serve fresh produce and homemade ice cream, u-pick flowers bloom in season, The Barn hosts weddings on 250 rolling acres, and the annual Pro Rodeo draws 3,500+ guests as one of Sussex County's biggest one-day events.

Wantage

Wormuth Farm in Wantage, in Sussex County, New Jersey, pasture-raises lamb, pork, and chicken with a hands-on approach — no middleman, no distributor, no supermarket, just Farmer Mike and family. Orders ship carbon-neutral to eight Northeast states (free over $149) with everything from grass-finished ground lamb to chicken feet and stock bones, backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

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.

Saylorsburg

Apple Ridge Farm in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania is Penn State environmental scientist-turned-farmer Brian Bruno's sustainable operation on his family's 1860s farm — naturally grown produce, pastured chickens and pigs, hydroponic lettuce, and a wood-fired brick oven sourdough bakery using regional organic flour and a natural starter. The farm also runs Scratch, a wood-fired pizza pub in the Easton Public Market, and fuels its oven with sawmill slab wood.