Livestock Farms & Ranches in North Carolina

Back To Earth Farm

Asheboro, NC

Back To Earth Farm in Asheboro, North Carolina is Tom and Janice's regenerative farm — a place for experiencing nature, community, and healing after they left corporate life to renew the health of land and body together. The farm offers 100% grass-fed beef, overnight cabin stays, farm tours, and wellness coaching, reconnecting people with the earth and soul.

Baldwin Beef

Yanceyville, NC

Baldwin Beef has done it the right way since 1969 — cattle roaming thousands of acres of chemical-free Central North Carolina pasture on a year-round grazing system, processed at local USDA facilities into dozens of vacuum-sealed cuts. The Yanceyville farm store (open Monday through Saturday) adds artisan beef jerky in 11 varieties, grass-fed suet skincare, and all-natural dog food and treats.

Braeburn Farm - Grassfed Beef

Snow Camp, NC

Braeburn Farm spans 500+ acres of pastures, woodlands, creeks, and ponds in Snow Camp, in the heart of the North Carolina Piedmont, where Charles and Cindy Sydnor create incredible grass-finished beef by building a healthy ecosystem through holistic, high-intensity grazing. Moving cows to new grass daily sequesters carbon and improves the land; the beef sells through Left Bank Butchery and economical bulk purchases, and farm tours welcome everyone from ecology classes to birders.

Broke Hen Farm

Moncure, NC

Broke Hen Farm in Moncure, North Carolina breeds quality homestead livestock — ADGA-registered Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats, heritage free-range chickens, and ducks — plus farm-fresh eggs. The farm's mission is empowering the community with locally, organically, and humanely raised breeding stock and the education to keep it.

Bucket List Homestead

Rural Hall, NC

Bucket List Homestead in Rural Hall, North Carolina is a family homestead practicing regenerative agriculture — Jersey cows for raw A2A2 milk and herd shares, Mulefoot pigs, pastured chicken, farm-raised beef, non-GMO eggs, honey, and yogurt. The farm store on Griffin Road is open six days a week, with subscriptions available on customer favorites.

Carolina Grass-Fed Meats

Liberty, NC

Carolina Grass-Fed Meats raises authentic non-GMO grass-fed beef, pork, and chicken on York Martin Road in Liberty, North Carolina. The farm store is open to the public, with farm pickup, drop-off points across the Triad and Triangle, and home delivery within 50 miles of the farm.

Double R Cattle Services, Inc.

Hillsborough, NC

Double R Cattle Services is a family farm in Hillsborough, in northern Orange County, North Carolina, specializing in two things done well: 100% grass-fed pastured beef sold by appointment, and fresh strawberries whose u-pick patch is an annual tradition for families across the Triangle.

Edwards Family Farms NC

Nebo, NC

Edwards Family Farms in Nebo is McDowell County, North Carolina's favorite farm for local meat pickup — pasture-raised chicken, forest-raised pork, 98.7% grass-fed beef, and farm-fresh eggs from a regenerative farm, raised right with no BS. Local pickup only, with guided farm tours, custom pork shares, a farm membership, and a free Steady Table recipe book to get families cooking.

Fat Mountain Farms

Cerro Gordo, NC

Fat Mountain Farms in Cerro Gordo, North Carolina raises regeneratively farmed meats on year-round pasture — chicken, grass-fed beef and lamb, and eggs with no feedlots, antibiotics, or added hormones. Individual cuts, bundle boxes, build-your-own boxes, and "chicken for the year" freezer stockups ship nationwide from the family farm.

Green Leaf Farms

Concord, NC

Green Leaf Farms is a North Carolina century farm between Concord and Mount Pleasant, just north of Charlotte, producing grass-fed and finished beef, woodlands pastured pork, and pasture-raised eggs. No chemicals, pesticides, or herbicides have touched the land in over a decade, bringing biodiversity roaring back — with farm tours, education, and a venue space for special occasions.

Hickory Nut Gap

Fairview, NC

Hickory Nut Gap Farms in Fairview, North Carolina is a leader in regenerative agriculture — a Savory Institute-accredited Regenerative Hub sourcing 100% grassfed, grass-finished beef and pasture-raised pork from family farms across the Southeast. Its humanely raised meats, never from feedlots and never given antibiotics or added hormones, reach Whole Foods, Sprouts, Ingles, and Harris Teeter shelves across the eastern US, and the farm itself welcomes visitors.

Lizzy Lou's Family Farm

Currie, NC

Lizzy Lou's Family Farm in Currie, North Carolina produces gourmet-quality pasture-raised Black Angus beef and organically grown specialty cut flowers, specializing in English garden roses. The farm distills its own botanicals into small-batch hydrosols and rose bath products, hosts workshops and on-farm events, rents two cozy Airbnb stays, and sells flowers Saturdays at the Wilmington Farmers Market at Tidal Creek Co-op.

Lynch Farm

Mebane, NC

Lynch Farm is a sixth-generation family farm in Mebane, North Carolina producing grain-fed, 100% Black Angus dry-aged beef with no added hormones, steroids, antibiotics, fillers, or implants — a proud Got To Be NC member. Whole, half, quarter, and eighth shares are available by phone from the Lynch family on Lynch Store Road.

Open Pastures Meat

Open Pasture Meats sources from small, company-owned sustainable farms along the Appalachian chain from southwest Virginia to upstate South Carolina — grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, heritage pastured pork, and wild-caught Carolina seafood delivered within two days of catch. Everything is forage-fed with no steroids, hormones, or antibiotics, USDA inspected with third-party purity testing, and processed weekly for freshness, with cow and pig sharing programs from its Charlotte base.

Proffitt Family Cattle Company

Kings Mountain, NC

Proffitt Family Cattle Company has served the Charlotte area since 2009 from its farm in Kings Mountain, raising 100% grass-fed, grass-finished "Umami Beef" on chemical-free pastures — Angus and Hereford genetics supplemented with high trace mineral salt for rich, complex flavor. Sold from the farm store, the Matthews farmers market, and past partners from Whole Foods to area restaurants.

Reverence Farms

Graham, NC

Reverence Farms in Graham, North Carolina is a different kind of dairy — cows are milked alongside their calves on pastures tended like gardens, producing A2A2 grass-fed milk from a herd hand-selected over decades. The farm also raises well-mannered Jersey sires, sells meat bundles and winter shares, and teaches the next generation through The Stockholder's Manual and on-farm mentorship.

River Mountain Ranch

Louisburg, NC

River Mountain Ranch in Louisburg, North Carolina raises premium Wagyu and Angus beef on a regenerative farm, sold direct through its RMR Meats shop on Old Express Road.

Smithview Farm

Pittsboro, NC

Smithview Farm in Pittsboro, North Carolina has raised 100% grassfed, grass-finished Angus beef since 2010, focusing on genetics, quality forages, and daily management that shape nutrition, taste, and tenderness. Paleo-approved, with free delivery on most orders.

Spinning Spider Creamery

Marshall, NC

Spinning Spider Creamery is an artisan goat dairy nestled in a mountain cove on Bailey Mountain in Madison County, North Carolina, where a homeschooling family crafts fresh chevre, bloomy rind, and aged cheeses old-world style from their Saanen, Alpine, and Toggenburg herds. Find the cheeses at the North Asheville Tailgate Market, Transylvania Farmers Market, and RAD Farmers Market year-round, plus local specialty stores.

Stewart Farms Beef

Stedman, NC

Stewart Farms has been a family tradition in Stedman, North Carolina since 1968, when Carolyn and James Stewart raised crops and pigs for their barbecue restaurants — today son Jamie and wife Jennifer sell NCDA-inspected, farm-direct grass-fed beef. Bundles range from a quarter cow to a whole cow, delivered within 100 miles of Fayetteville, with hay, minerals, silage, and butchering all sourced from fellow local farms.

Three Graces Dairy

Marshall, NC

Three Graces Dairy in Marshall, North Carolina takes its name from antiquity — the goat, the sheep, and the cow give the exquisite milks behind its French-style farmstead cheeses. From soil to seed to grass to milk to curd, it all happens on the farm, with tours, events, and classes offered.

Yesteryear Farm

Yesteryear Farm runs a raw milk herd share serving northeast North Carolina and the Outer Banks — since North Carolina prohibits raw milk sales but not drinking milk from your own cow, the farm makes ownership possible without a 365-day commitment. Real milk for families focused on nutrient density and gut health.