Alhambra Valley Beef and Silver Springs Ranch

Martinez, CA

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.

Avenales Ranch Beef

Avenales Ranch beef was born from a dinner with the family's near-centenarian grandfather: raise cattle on the feed of the land and dry-age no less than 21 days — 27 is best. The California ranch now offers organically raised, GAP-4 and Audubon certified, grass-fed and finished beef dry-aged 27 days, sold as quarters, halves, and wholes with $50 shipping anywhere in California, plus its own butcher shop and small-lot wines.

Bear River Valley Beef

Ferndale, CA

Bear River Valley Beef is a small family farm in Ferndale on Northern California's Lost Coast, raising all-natural, 100% grass-fed cattle on pasture year-round for over 38 years. The USDA-inspected beef comes from cattle raised under humane, low-stress conditions with no antibiotics or added hormones, sold as ranch packages, bulk beef, and individual cuts with reasonable shipping.

Bear River Valley Beef

Ferndale, CA

Bear River Valley Beef raises all-natural, 100% grass-fed cattle in Ferndale on the Lost Coast, where the family has farmed for more than 38 years. Cattle stay on pasture year-round under humane, low-stress handling with no antibiotics or added hormones, and the USDA-inspected beef ships as individual cuts, ranch packages, and bulk orders — the same beef the family eats daily.

Bear River Valley Beef

Ferndale, CA

For over 38 years, the family behind Bear River Valley Beef has raised cattle on pasture in Ferndale, on Northern California's Lost Coast. Every animal is born and raised on their land, kept on grass 100% of the time, and handled with low-stress, humane practices — producing USDA-inspected, all-natural beef with no antibiotics or added hormones, available as individual cuts, ranch packages, and bulk beef with shipping.

Buy Ranch Direct

Huntington Beach, CA

Buy Ranch Direct is a cooperative of family-owned ranches based at Diamond Mountain Ranch in the Sierra Nevada, raising 100% grass-fed and grass-finished heritage-breed animals on certified organic grasses with no corn, soy, shots, steroids, hormones, or antibiotics. The co-op sells freezer-filler boxes of beef, bison, pork, and chicken at Southern California farmers markets including Huntington Beach, plus warehouse pickup and home delivery, with a 5% membership discount program.

Carrisito Ranch

Santa Ysabel, CA

Carrisito Ranch is a fourth-generation family cattle ranch on Highway 79 in the Santa Ysabel Valley, selling beef on the hoof by the half or whole plus USDA-processed butcher boxes, ground beef, brisket, picanha, and snack sticks. The ranch also raises heritage-breed pork, lamb, goat, and free-range Thanksgiving turkeys, with monthly pickup days on the second Friday and Saturday and additional pickup at the Julian Cider Mill.

Casey Redtail Ranch

Casey Redtail Ranch continues a family tradition begun when Irish emigrant Jeremiah Casey homesteaded southern Monterey County, California in 1861 — antibiotic- and hormone-free, grass-fed and finished beef raised free range on the Central Coast. Short-duration, high-density grazing builds soil and forage health, and USDA-butchered beef sells in eighth "sampler" through full shares.

Chileno Valley Ranch

Petaluma, CA

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.

Crown H Cattle

Etna, CA

Crown H Cattle Company raises Belted Galloway heritage cattle naturally on the Hanna family's ranch in Etna, in far northern California — they even grow their own hay. The beef is humanely processed and dry-aged locally for 14 to 20 days, then shipped monthly in insulated boxes, with delivery to the Bay Area and free local delivery.

Crown H Cattle

Etna, CA

At Crown H Cattle Company, the Hanna family raises Belted Galloway heritage cattle on their ranch in Etna, California, growing their own hay and finishing the cattle naturally on the ranch. Belties are a heritage breed prized for temperament and foraging ability, and the resulting beef — dry-aged 14 to 20 days and humanely processed locally — ships monthly in insulated dry-ice boxes, with Bay Area delivery and free local delivery.

C&R Ranch

C&R Ranch raises sustainably grown, grass-fed, all-natural California beef with holistic ranching at its core — humane treatment, healthy soil, and thriving plant life produce quality beef for family and friends.

Da Le Ranch

Lake Elsinore, CA

Da-Le Ranch is a small, family-operated ranch on over 100 scenic acres in the hills of Lake Elsinore, in Southern California's Inland Empire. The ranch specializes in farm-fresh, grass-fed meats and free-range eggs raised ethically without hormones, steroids, or antibiotics, with pre-orders and a showroom on Mesa Rim Road in San Diego.

Eel River Grassfed Beef

Eel River Organic Beef is a small family-run operation in Humboldt County, California whose grass-fed, grass-finished cattle graze thousands of acres of lush green pasture year-round with open space, fresh air, and clean water. Organic steaks, ground beef, and extras ship nationwide with free shipping over $199, plus a pet store line from the same pristine country.

Estrada Grass Fed Beef

Estrada Grass Fed Beef is a family-owned ranch and premiere grass-fed beef provider in Santa Cruz County, California, selling traditional, authentic beef directly to local consumers as whole, three-quarter, half, and quarter carcasses. Animals are processed by a USDA-certified butcher and cut and wrapped to each customer's specifications.

Family Friendly Farms

Grass Valley, CA

Family Friendly Farms began over twenty years ago with a booth at a Grass Valley farmers market and a desire to raise naturally grown, humanely treated animals. The Northern California family farm sells 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb, pasture-raised pork, and free-range chicken — never any hormones, antibiotics, corn, soy, or GMOs — at farmers-market prices online, from single cuts to whole shares, with transparent at-cost shipping, home delivery, and local pickup.

Family Friendly Farms

Grass Valley, CA

Family Friendly Farms is a Northern California family farm in Grass Valley that has ranched for over twenty years, offering 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef and lamb, free-range and pasture-raised chicken, and pasture-raised pork — no added hormones, antibiotics, corn, soy, or GMOs. The farm began at a local farmers market booth and still offers farmers-market prices through its online store, from individual cuts up to whole shares, plus home delivery and local pickup.

First Rain Farm

Nevada City, CA

At 2,500 feet outside Nevada City, First Rain Farm grows CCOF-certified organic produce on 3.5 no-till acres, generating 90% of its fertility on-farm with animals and compost since its 2012 founding. Its herd of 160 Nubian and Kiko goats doubles as a land stewardship service for vegetation management, forest thinning, and prescribed burn support, and the farm's 26 crop varieties sell at local farmers markets.

First Rain Farm

Nevada City, CA

First Rain Farm, established in 2012 at 2,500 feet in the Sierra Nevada foothills outside Nevada City, grows certified organic produce (CCOF) across 3.5 cultivated acres and 26 crop varieties using no-till practices since 2017, producing 90% of its fertility needs on-farm through animals and compost. The farm also runs a herd of 160 Nubian and Kiko goats offering land stewardship services — goat vegetation management, forest thinning, and prescribed burning — and sells at local farmers markets.

Fouch Farms

Mariposa, CA

Fouch Farms is a small family farm in Mariposa, California — Hannah, Jesse, and their four kids — raising humanely handled, grass-fed beef born and finished on their own ranch. The farm uses holistic management, MIG and mob grazing, no-till planting, and compost, never uses chemicals or GMOs, and sells whole beef at $11.25 per pound with free California delivery via drop points.

Garden Variety Cheese

Royal Oaks, CA

Garden Variety Cheese is a small farmstead sheep dairy on 40-acre Monkeyflower Ranch in northern Monterey County, milking and making cheese since 2009. Its 80 ewes — each named after a garden flower — graze fresh pasture supplemented with alfalfa and organic grain, with no chemical wormers or antibiotics, producing rich sheep's milk cheeses and yogurt year-round through staggered breeding.

J Bar S Ranch

Ukiah, CA

J Bar S Ranch has raised bison on open Mendocino County range since 1986, a family operation on Highway 20 outside Ukiah. Grass leads the herd's diet with a pellet finish for tenderness and flavor, and the ranch sells minimally processed bison steaks, roasts, burgers, and BBQ sauce alongside cooking guides and a virtual tour.

J Bar S Ranch

Ukiah, CA

Locally owned since 1986, J Bar S Ranch raises bison on the rolling hills and open ranges of Mendocino County near Ukiah, California. The family-run ranch keeps grass as the herd's primary diet with a pellet finish for tenderness, selling minimally processed bison steaks, burgers, and roasts with no artificial ingredients, and offering virtual ranch tours.

J Bar S Ranch

Ukiah, CA

J Bar S Ranch is a family-run bison ranch in Ukiah, California, locally owned and raising bison since 1986 on the rolling hills and open ranges of Mendocino County. Grass is always the herd's primary diet, finished with specially designed pellets, producing minimally processed bison steaks, burgers, roasts, and BBQ sauce with no artificial ingredients — plus ranch tours.

J Bar S Ranch

Ukiah, CA

A family operation since 1986, J Bar S Ranch raises bison on open range along Highway 20 outside Ukiah in Mendocino County. The herd lives on grass with a specially designed pellet finish, yielding minimally processed bison steaks, roasts, burgers, and BBQ sauce sold direct — with recipes, grilling guides, and a virtual ranch tour on the ranch's site.

Jones Family Farm & Ranch

Jones Family Farm & Ranch is a small family operation on Stone Jug Road in Sutter Creek, Amador County, California, raising pork, free-range chicken, eggs, and livestock with a commitment to giving every animal the best possible life. The ranch promotes sustainable, humane farming and sells farm-fresh eggs, poultry, and pork through its online store with harvest waitlists.

Leftcoast Grassfed

Pescadero, CA

LeftCoast GrassFed comes from TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, home of the TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation, which demonstrates regenerative rangeland management on working land. The ranch practices planned grazing, rest and recovery, biodiversity stewardship, and soil building to provide healthy food while restoring water cycles and capturing carbon.

M & A Ranch

Browns Valley, CA

M&A Ranch is a small family-owned cattle ranch in Browns Valley, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, raising Angus cattle on the same property since 1980. The herd — bred with New Zealand Turihaua Angus and Akaushi Wagyu genetics — is 100% grass-fed and grass-finished on native and irrigated pastures with no grain, antibiotics, added hormones, or GMOs, sold as half-beef shares butchered at the ranch, typically through a waiting list.

M & A Ranch

Browns Valley, CA

Established in 1980 in the Sierra Nevada foothills at Browns Valley, M&A Ranch has spent four decades refining grass-fed Angus genetics, blending New Zealand Turihaua Station bloodlines with Akaushi Wagyu. Calves are born and raised on the ranch on native and irrigated pasture — never grain, antibiotics, hormones, or insecticides — and sold as half-beef shares butchered at the ranch, usually through a first-come waiting list.

Marin Coast Ranch

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.

Markegard Family Grass-Fed

Half Moon Bay, CA

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.

Montana Ranch and Cattle Company, Inc.

Bakersfield, CA

Montana Ranch and Cattle Company, with sales based in Bakersfield, traces its ranching lineage to 1836 and a Texas Ranger bloodline, six generations on. The company sells exclusively USDA Prime, 100% grass-fed steaks — ribeye, filet mignon, New York strip, porterhouse — plus ground beef, chicken, and tallow, all raised regeneratively on family ranches with no hormones or antibiotics.

Paicines Ranch

Paicines, CA

Paicines Ranch spans roughly 7,000 acres of rangeland, 550 acres of row crops, and a 25-acre vineyard — all certified organic — among the oak-studded hills of San Benito County. The regenerative ranch produces 100% grass-fed and finished lamb and beef plus pastured pork and turkey, hosts weddings, retreats, and lodging, and runs a learning center dedicated to regenerating ecosystems from the soil up.

Richard's Grass-fed BEEF

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.

Rowdy Oak

RowdyOAK Dairy is a Jersey cow herd share in northern Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, where members enjoy the benefits of raw milk — one share provides a half gallon weekly at convenient pickup locations around Acton and Agua Dulce. Sister brand Rowdy Rooster Co. adds homegrown goat soaps and products.

Salmon Creek Ranch

Bodega, CA

Salmon Creek Ranch in Bodega, in Sonoma County, produces naturally raised meat on natural pasture and forest: grass-fed beef, Kiko goat meat, holiday geese, and organic duck eggs. The ranch also breeds Kiko goats, working Anatolian Shepherds, and Salukis, offers a treehouse farm stay, and sells on-farm, at farmers markets, and by nationwide shipping.

Stemple Creek Ranch | Organic Ranch, Wedding & Event Venue

Tomales, CA

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.

Tawanda Farms

Montague, CA

Tawanda Farms, run for 25 years by two longtime friends and business partners, is a cattle and sheep ranch tucked into rural Siskiyou County in far Northern California. Alongside grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb — butchered each fall straight off green pasture with no growth hormones or maintenance antibiotics — the ranch is known for its long-wool Romney sheep, producing naturally colored fleece from light gray to black and carefully selected breeding stock.

Tawanda Farms

Montague, CA

Tawanda Farms is a cattle and sheep ranch in rural Siskiyou County, Northern California, celebrating over 20 years of operation under two longtime friends and business partners. The ranch offers grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb butchered each fall straight off fresh pasture, plus long-wool Romney fleece in natural colors from white to black, and carefully selected Romney breeding stock with pre- and post-sale support.

Tawanda Farms

Montague, CA

In the rural seclusion of Siskiyou County, Tawanda Farms has raised cattle and Romney sheep for more than two decades under partners who have been friends for far longer. The ranch sells grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb — fall-butchered straight off pasture, raised without growth hormones or maintenance antibiotics — along with naturally colored long-wool Romney fleece prized by spinners and carefully vetted breeding stock.

Three Sons Farm

Ramona, CA

Three Sons Farm in Ramona raises pasture-raised chickens and eggs, grass-fed and grass-finished beef, and heritage pork — all animals raised on the farm itself, never bought in for resale. The farm delivers to most of San Diego County on Fridays with a $40 minimum, offers on-farm pickup by appointment, and sells at the Cardiff and Leucadia farmers markets.

Windrush Farm Fiber Arts

Petaluma, CA

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.