Meat Farms & Ranches near Fort Collins, CO

Fort Collins

Friendly Nick's Butcher is a Fort Collins meat shop and grocery started by Nick Chase in 2017, built around beef, pork, and chicken sourced from local farms using sustainable, humane practices. The shop makes its own sausages, jerky, and whiskey-barrel-brined turkeys, and once gave away roughly $10,000 in free meat over two days to help food-insecure neighbors during a government shutdown.

Mountain View Meats traces its ranching roots to 1903 and now runs a family feed yard, packing plant, and farm store in Fort Collins, selling dry-aged, grain-finished beef and pork bundles direct from the ranch. The farm store is Colorado Proud certified, accepts SNAP/EBT, and is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons.

Craig Angus Ranch has raised registered Black Angus cattle in Fort Collins since 1978, when Dennis and Carla Craig started the operation. The family sells natural, grass-fed and grain-finished beef by the whole, half, and quarter, plus registered Angus bulls, wintering cattle in Fort Collins and summering them on pasture in Tie Siding, Wyoming.

Wellington

Listed only as "Grass Fed Beef" with no city, address, or owner name attached, this entry could not be matched to a specific Colorado producer online. Colorado has dozens of small grass-fed beef operations selling direct to consumers; shoppers likely encountered this seller at a farmers market or roadside stand rather than a searchable business.

Memphis Ranch is a veteran-owned bison operation in Carr, north of Fort Collins, raising 100% grass-fed and grass-finished bison for steaks, roasts, ground meat, and jerky shipped nationwide. The ranch ties its regenerative grazing practices to rebuilding native shortgrass prairie. Its retail site now operates under the name Primal Bison.

Carr

Your Butcher Frank has run an old-fashioned butcher counter on Coffman Street in Longmont since 1980, currently owned by Lee Westcott and Ron Lamb. The shop cuts prime rib, grass-fed beef and pork, organ meats, and wild game, and is known for a well-stacked deli sandwich, open Tuesday through Saturday.

Frank Silva raises more than 300 Scottish Highland cattle on a 70-acre ranch south of La Salle. The herd goes hormone-free and antibiotic-free, with a choice of full grass-fed or a traditional finish on alfalfa, grass hay, flax, sunflower seed, and spent brewers grains. Beef is dry-aged 21 days, then cut, vacuum-packed, and frozen. Find them at the Louisville Farmers Market Saturdays from 9am to 1pm, or order online for delivery.