Meat Farms & Ranches near San Francisco, CA

San Francisco

Barons Quality Meats & Seafood is a Bay Area butcher on Park Street in Alameda dedicated to top-quality meat, poultry, and seafood raised humanely with minimal environmental impact. The shop's signature marinades pair its cuts with chef-table flavor, ready for the grill.

San Francisco

At Guerra’s, quality products and personal service have been the foundation of our business since Mark and Battista Guerra opened their butcher shop on Taraval at 22nd Avenue in 1954. Over the years, we added the deli, greatly expanded our selection, introduced full-service catering, and more. We’re proud that some of our original customers and their families are still shopping with us. Today, we’re continuing the family tradition with Robert Guerra, Mark’s son, and cousin John Guerra, Battista’

Marin Sun Farms runs whole-animal butcher shops selling grass-fed, pasture-raised beef, lamb, goat and pork, plus poultry and eggs, all raised without antibiotics or hormones. The company sources from a network of Northern California ranches and operates what it describes as the last remaining slaughterhouse in the Bay Area. Its retail butcher shop sits inside Rockridge Market Hall in Oakland; the company's offices are in Petaluma.

The Local Butcher Shop sources whole animals from local farms and butchers them in-house at 1600 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, turning out sausages, pates and roasts alongside stocks and rendered fat from a zero-waste approach. The shop also teaches in-person and online butchery classes and runs a rotating Butcher Basket subscription.

Oakland

Over the last one hundred years the majority of food production, processing and distribution became consolidated into a handful of large corporations. So began the fast decline of our country’s small farms and farmers. The process of building resiliency in our local food system starts with diversifying supply back into the hands of many small farms and ensuring their continued operations and growth. Understanding this, in 1999 David Evans founded Marin Sun Farms as an extension of his upbringing

Oakland

Clove & Hoof is an Oakland restaurant on Broadway serving a butcher-driven menu of classics — the burger and the cheesesteak lead the list — alongside a rotating slate of kitchen specials and Sunday brunch. Open daily from 11 AM to 8 PM with online ordering for pickup and delivery.

Half Moon Bay

Markegard Family Grass-Fed raises certified grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb plus pasture-raised chicken and pork across ranchland in San Mateo, Sonoma, and Marin Counties, based in Half Moon Bay. Using holistic planned grazing that mimics the elk herds that once roamed California's grasslands, the pesticide-free ranch was the first in California to earn Audubon's Bird Friendly land certification, and delivers regenerative meats around the Bay Area and at farmers markets.

Richards Regenerative — five generations of California ranchers with roots outside Sacramento since 1941 — raises American Grassfed Certified beef that also carries the Savory Institute's Land-to-Market Ecological Outcome Verification. Launched as Richards Ranch Meats in 2014 to sell directly to customers, the ranch now ships ground beef bundles, ribeyes, New York steaks, and country blends nationwide.

Martinez

Alhambra Valley Beef and Pears is a small family ranch in the Alhambra Valley/Briones agricultural preserve near Martinez, formed from two neighboring family ranches joined by marriage in 1941. The ranch raises 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef with no grain, pastured pork on a locally milled feed, chickens, and pears, with a commitment to humane livestock handling.