Meat Farms & Ranches near San Rafael, CA

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’

Petaluma

Discover Turner Grass Fed Beef, nestled in Marin County just an hour north of San Francisco. Our small, family-owned ranch specializes in grass fed beef, exclusively raised on wholesome pasture grass. Our cattle are treated with utmost care, never receiving antibiotics, hormones, additives, grain, corn, or anything unnatural to ruminant animals. Through sustainable rotational grazing, we prioritize both cattle health and the preservation of native grasslands.

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.

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.

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.

Penngrove

At Bud’s Custom Meats, you will find a group of professionals that are passionate and dedicated to providing exceptional meat products while promoting sustainability of local agricultural resources. Over the years we have been meticulously updating and renovating our shop to make it the best we can. Although we cherish and respect the traditional butcher shop feel, we must also move forward with the times to keep ourselves up to date and provide the best service available. One of our largest pro

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.

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.

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.