312 Farms & Carriage Company

Alton, IL

312 Farms & Carriage Company is a husband-and-wife farm in Alton, Illinois on land that's been in the family for over 70 years, raising ethically and humanely produced eggs, poultry, beef, and pork under a strict animals-first policy. The couple also runs a carriage service for weddings, proms, and holiday festivals; farm visits are by appointment.

Barn Again Beef

Princeville, IL

Barn Again Beef is a family farm in Princeville, 15 miles north of Peoria, where founder Brian Wieland began raising Black Angus freezer beef in 2007 — naming the business for the childhood barn he restored with its first earnings. The farm sells whole, half, and quarter beef plus a growing lineup of grass-fed beef, bison, pork, chicken, and seafood from like-minded Illinois and Missouri partner farms.

Brass Family Farm - Walnut Grove

Stillman Valley, IL

Brass Family Farm in Stillman Valley, 15 minutes south of Rockford, has been in the family for over 100 years, with fourth-generation Stephen Brass running daily operations. The farm sells premium 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef in quarter, half, and whole shares plus smaller beef boxes for farm pickup — raised on convictions of healing the soil and feeding families clean, nutrient-dense food, backed by 80+ five-star reviews.

Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm

Ottawa, IL

Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm in Ottawa, Illinois was Chicago's first meat CSA, offering pay-by-the-month memberships with monthly deliveries of pasture-raised beef, pork, and lamb. Members know exactly where their food is produced and how the animals are cared for, with custom-butchered freezer orders and smaller packages also available.

Dierks Farms Grass Fed Beef

Ava, IL

The Dierks family has raised grass-fed beef on the same southern Illinois land in Ava for five generations — natural, with no antibiotics, steroids, or grain, ever. Beef is sold in whole, half, and quarter orders with delivery to your door within 400 miles of the farm.

Ernst Family Farms

New Douglas, IL

Ernst Family Farms in New Douglas has raised beef, beefalo, and pork for three generations, on land the family settled in the mid-1800s after emigrating from Germany. Owner David Ernst grazes cattle nearly year-round by stockpiling fescue and planting cover crops, keeping the loop local and tight; find the farm at the Goshen Market in Edwardsville on Saturdays and the Maryville Farmers Market on Thursdays.

Flying S Beef

Palestine, IL

Flying S Beef in Palestine, Illinois is a locally owned family farm raising 100% grass-fed, non-GMO beef with a focus on sustainable agriculture — no grain, simply grass, just as nature intended. Open weekdays 8 to 5 on East 500th Avenue.

Fulcrum Farm Foundation/ Farm 2 Veteran

Manhattan, IL

Farm2Veteran, home of the Fulcrum Farm Foundation in Manhattan, Illinois, raises livestock and operates a greenhouse and garden to provide free, farm-fresh meals to veterans facing food insecurity — over 500,000 meals provided so far. With veterans nearly twice as likely to lack access to nutritious food, the donation-supported farm gives its animals room to roam and grows a network of partner farms across the country.

Grateful Graze Grass Finished Beef, Chicken, Pork

Cambridge, IL

Grateful Graze is a regenerative farm in Cambridge, Illinois on a mission to bring livestock back to the land: 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef moved daily to fresh forage, timber-raised pork, mobile-pasture-raised chicken fed homegrown non-GMO feed, and silvopasture-raised goat. Shop 150+ cuts online for home delivery or pickup, with quarter and half beef pre-orders and partner shelves at health food stores in Geneseo and Galesburg.

Irish Grove Farms, Inc.

Pecatonica, IL

Irish Grove Farms has been in the Flynn family for over 100 years, set in the rolling hills of northern Illinois near Pecatonica. Four generations have worked the land, now managed since 2006 by Jackie (Flynn) Batista — a wildlife ecologist who also directs the nonprofit Farmers Rising — and her husband Marcelo, the farm's inventive mechanic, with the belief that happy farmers make for happy animals.

Nadig Family Farm - Grass Fed Beef & Lamb, Organically Fed Pork

Rochelle, IL

Nadig Family Farm offers premium 100% grass-fed beef, pasture-raised lamb, organically fed pork, and raw dairy herdshares, sold in whole, half, and quarter shares with transparent pricing and a small deposit to reserve. Cattle roam freely on pasture eating only natural grass, and orders are processed, vacuum-sealed, and picked up custom-cut from the processor — trusted by customers for over a decade.

Ruebush Farms

Ruebush Farms raises specialty and small grains for brewing and distilling — heirloom corns like bloody butcher and hickory king, violetta barley, hazlet and serafino rye, einkorn, and red winter wheat — grown with regenerative practices to enhance whiskey, bourbon, and beer. Diverse rotations, long-season cover crops, intensive rotational grazing, and no-till leave the land in better shape than they found it.

Slagel Family Meats

Forrest, IL

Slagel Farms is a fifth-generation family farm in Forrest, Illinois, farming since 1888 and supplying some of Chicago's finest restaurants with fresh, cut-to-order, all-natural and hormone-free meats. The family handles everything — raising the feed, livestock care, processing, packaging, and delivery — and hosts farm dinners prepared by well-known Chicago chefs.

Sorrels Beef Company

Streator, IL

Sorrels Beef Company is a small regenerative farm in the Streator area of Illinois raising 100% grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and free-range eggs — non-GMO fed, with no confinement barns, pesticides, hormones, or antibiotics — for those wishing to improve health through diet.