Find a Good Meat® Farmer

You’re interested in buying meat from a farmer, but where do you go to find a farmer who aligns with your Good Meat values? Here are a few places to look:

Find a farmer online with our NEW Good Meat® Finder

Finally, you can find meat near you that aligns with your Good Meat® values — whether you’re searching for a farm or ranch, restaurant or food truck, butcher shop or processor, or a co-op or a grocer—thanks to our Good Meat® Finder! With this nationwide directory, you can now search near your home or find meat that matches your values while on a trip! Ditch the apps that never get updated, provide information about only one type of business in the meat value chain, or don’t give you any purchasing info; Good Meat® Finder has it all.

Good Meat® Finder reflects Good Meat Project’s values of production and consumption practices that invest in healthy land, animals, and people, that embrace transparency from start to finish, and nourish and build community.

Search for a meat product. Select your values. Find meat near you. It’s that easy.

When you find a farm you think might be a fit, find a way to ask questions, especially if their website doesn't answer them for you (not all farmers have the time or the resources to build exhaustive websites).

Finding Meat at Farmers Markets

If you have access to a local farmers market, that’s a good place to start your search. Many farmers markets provide a directory of their vendors online, so you can even do some online research before your visit.

Some initial questions for Farmers Market meat vendors could be:

• Where are they located?
• How do they raise their animals?
• Do they only sell individual cuts at the market or will they sell you a share? Do they raise all their own meat or do they buy meat from other farms and resell? And if so, who are the other farmers?
• Do they deliver to your area?

At some point, you might move on to more detailed questions like:

• Are your pigs fully pastured?
• Or, what’s your take on grain-fed versus grass-fed beef?

Buying a few cuts from a farmer at a farmers market is a great way to sample meat before buying a bulk share. To find a nearby Farmers Market, check out the National Farmers Market Directory.

(Psst: See that fresh meat case in the photo? Meat vendors at farmers markets in the United States don’t usually look like this. Why? Because they are, typically, only legally allowed to sell individually packaged, frozen cuts out of coolers. This picture was actually taken in France. But, hey, we can keep dreaming.)