Meat Farms & Ranches in Connecticut

BOTL Farm

Ashford, CT

BOTL Farm is a first-generation, pasture-based livestock farm on 41 acres of silvopasture in Ashford, in Connecticut's Quiet Corner, raising heritage-breed pigs, goats, and chickens that live outdoors year-round. All animals are Certified Animal Welfare Approved — the goats Certified Grassfed by A Greener World — with pigs and chickens on soy-free, corn-free, certified organic feed, rotationally grazed from unassisted pasture birth to slaughter.

Broad Brook Beef

East Windsor, CT · Saturdays year-round, 10am to 3pm

Four Mile River Farm

Old Lyme, CT

Four Mile River Farm in Old Lyme, Connecticut raises beef, pork, and chicken with a simple goal: one family producing high-quality meat for yours. The farm stand on Four Mile River Road is open daily 9 to 5, with bulk bundles, weekly shipping across New England and the New York area, and free shipping on orders over $200.

Islip Meat Market

Laurel Ridge Grass-Fed Beef

Laurel Ridge is a family-operated farm in Litchfield, Connecticut raising 100% grass-fed beef cattle that live outside 365 days a year — fresh pasture about seven months, home-harvested hay in the cold months, well water, and nothing else but a salt lick. Most sales are wholesale halves and full cows processed at Plymouth Meats, with frozen retail cuts in sous vide-ready cryovac packaging and restaurant specials available.

Millbrook Beef & Dairy

Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Ox Hollow Farm Store

Woodbury, CT

Ox Hollow Farm, established in 1997 at the gateway of Litchfield County, raises all-natural pasture-raised Angus beef, Berkshire pork, free-range chicken, seasonal turkeys, and brown eggs — growing its own feed and rotationally grazing stock spring through fall. The family sells at farmers markets from Litchfield County to Manhattan's Union Square Greenmarket, from the Bantam farm stand open daily, and at the weekend barn store in Woodbury, with pesticide-free sweet corn and garden vegetables in season.

Prime Time Butcher

Shaggy Coos Farm

Easton, CT · Every day from 7 AM to 7 PM

Shaggy Coos Farm & Creamery in Easton is New England's southernmost dairy, raising livestock humanely on a diet of grass, hay, and antibiotic- and hormone-free grain. The honor-system farm store on Center Road is open every day from 7 AM to 7 PM with fresh milk, beef and pork cuts, and hand-collected eggs.

Stuart Family Farm

Bridgewater, CT

Stuart Family Farm, worked since 1929 in Bridgewater, Connecticut, was the first farm in the state awarded top grassfed and animal welfare certification for its 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef. The family ranch also raises pastured pork and poultry with regenerative practices, selling from a weekend farm store on Northrup Street with statewide home delivery.

Whippoorwill Farm

Lakeville, CT

Whippoorwill Farm in Lakeville raises grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and chicken in Connecticut's northwest corner, with a year-round farm shop open Fridays and Saturdays stocked with meats, eggs, maple syrup, and raw honey. Local restaurants — including the White Hart Inn and Community Table — build burgers and no-nitrite Farm Franks from the farm's meat.

Full Heart Farm

Ledyard, CT

Lakeside Farm Stand

Guilford, CT

Laurel Ridge Farm

Litchfield, CT

Woodstock Sustainable Farms

woodstock, CT