Livestock Farms & Ranches near San Rafael, CA

Petaluma

Windrush Farm is a working sheep farm in Chileno Valley near Petaluma, founded in 1995 by writer Mimi Luebbermann as a place to live simply and farm fiber. With her son Farmer Arann, the farm has grown into an educational destination teaching Bay Area children and adults about farm life, wool, and the real world of animals, grass, and sunshine.

Petaluma

Chileno Valley Ranch sits in a spectacular valley in the rolling hills of coastal Marin outside Petaluma, where ranchers Mike and Sally Gale have sold grass-fed beef and lamb direct to families for 17 years. Each fall the ranch opens its orchard for reservation-only u-pick apples, and the property also hosts weddings and volunteer days supporting sustainable agriculture and wildlife habitat.

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.

Marin Coast Ranch is a sixth-generation Sonoma-Marin family operation producing USDA Certified Grassfed, dry-aged beef and grass-fed lamb — regenerative, certified natural, and the only active full-life-cycle beef ranch between the two counties to earn Slow Food's Snail of Approval. Whole and half shares sell out fast, while ranch hikes, private picnics, and coho salmon habitat restoration share the land's story.

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.

Tomales

Stemple Creek Ranch is a fourth-generation family ranch in Tomales, in West Marin, practicing carbon farming that builds soil and strengthens ecosystems. The ranch ships 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb and pasture-raised pork nationwide — plus certified organic pasture-raised chicken from partner Big Bluff Ranch — sells whole and half animal shares, runs subscription boxes, hosts ranch tours and tastings, and doubles as a redwood-backed wedding venue.