Meat Farms & Ranches near Walterboro, SC

Varnville

The farm that plays host to our beef cattle is Camp Branch. It’s named for the braided black water stream that meanders through the property. When we first acquired the 365 acre tract it was in need of some care. The old cropland openings had been depleted by years of conventional, intensive practices leaving little organic material in the soil. In creating our pastures we began a process that would gradually heal the land and thereby sustain a healthy herd of grazing animals. An enlightened far

Live Oak Beef raises 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef in South Carolina's Lowcountry and ACE Basin, where a closed herd of Gelbvieh-Angus cattle grazes bahia, rye, and old rice fields 15 miles south of Charleston. The USDA Grass-fed certified operation — run by retired Charleston surgeon Dr. David Baird's family on historic Live Oak and Plum Hill plantations — sells ground beef batches, shares, and premium cuts, with local retail partners around the Lowcountry.

Ravenel

Cordray's in Ravenel, South Carolina is a Lowcountry institution combining first-quality custom wild game processing (deer, alligators, wild hogs), humane custom slaughter for local farmers, and an acclaimed taxidermy studio. Cordray Farms continues a 100-year beef tradition — grass-grazed cattle finished on home-ground corn, soybean meal, and molasses with no antibiotics or hormones, sold fresh and frozen in the on-farm store August through January.