Sometimes, you just feel like eating a great piece of meat. Your body speaks to you and nothing else will do! You know the feeling, when only a juicy fresh BBQ burger or steak will suffice.  Why resist? With meat from the ranchers and producers below you can have the freshest, healthiest meats available. Looking for Organic meats, grass fed, free range, bison even whole roasting pigs- we have found all the resources for you. Recently, we tried sausage from a local farm raising Bershire pigs (Stone Barns Center) - what a difference in flavor.  Don't miss the traditiional dry-cured sausages - a thin slice with a shaving of parmesan, now that is living! Our salumi resources will make you want to pig out.

• Heritage Foods USA - Foods derived from rare breeds of American livestock & crops with strong genetic authenticity & well-defined production protocols. They brings hard to find heritage foods with superior taste directly to American homes -Pork, Lamb, fresh heritage turkeys, hams & more. We tasted the fresh rare breed turkey, the flavor is wonderful, a larger amount of dark moist meat - a real treat.
• Getty Farm - Thanksgiving turkey, chicken, beef, and pork.  Family-run farm, meats with no chemicals
• Brehm Farms - Gourmet Limousin Beef
• La Cense Beef- Natural, true 100% grass fed & grass finished beef from select Black Angus cattle raised on the pastures of the La Cense ranch in Dillon, Montana.It is dry-aged for 19 days & then hand cut. We have had the treat of sampling steak burgers, a ribeye & a NY strip. True beef flavor with a very clean taste. Truly excellent.Lean & lower in fat than grain fed beef.
• Thousand Hills Cattle Co - 100% grass fed beef, higher in Omega-3 fatty acids, CLA, and Vitamin E , lower cholesterol, saturated fats & calories -no hormones or antibiotics
• SayersBrook Bison Ranch - More commonly known as buffalo meat, their bison is 97% fat free & has 40% more protein than beef. We sampled several cuts and they were delicious - moist & full of flavor. Their herd of 1000 bison roam free on 4,000 acres ranch in rural Missouri & graze on its native grasses.
• Big Valley Buffalo - They raise approx 1,800 buffalo on the grasslands in Oregon . The animals are raised without hormones or antibiotics of any kind , 100% grass fed & free range. They do not use feedlots or animal feeds. We tried several cuts of steak and they were excellent. Tender - slight different flavor from beef but not gamey at all. Very enjoyable & healthy.
• Lobels - Full service butcher, meats delivered fresh
• Niman Ranch - Organic beef, pork, and lamb
• Snake River Farms - Family-owned business began a decade ago by flying a small herd of Wagyu cattle to the U.S. from the Kobe region in Japan. Once in the U.S., Wagyu bulls were crossed with premium American Black Angus to create american kobe beef. They also offer American kurobuta pork, 100% pure all-natural Berkshire pork, raised by a small network of family farmers .
• BBQ Pigs - Order whole roasting pigs for the BBQ! Since 1973 Madson Meat, located in Miami, Fla has been processing & distributing roasting pigs. Locally they are purchase by purveyors & restaurants. Now they are available online!
• Exotic Meats - Game & speciality meats, all farm raised. Alligator, wild boar, bear, Just about any meat you can think of!
• Berkshire Meats - Naturally produced farm fresh meat from Berkshire pigs
• Reicks View Farms -Traditional family farm in Iowa focused on raising & developing pork. They offer thick Applewood Smoked Bacon, big Brats, convenient Shredded BBQ Pork, Applewood Smoked Country Style Pitt Ham, & tender seasoned Loin
• Colorado Farm And Ranch Products - Organic pork
• Grass Fed Farms - True farm raised free range chicken. No antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, herbicides or chemicals of any kind.They only producing a couple thousand broilers a year, but have 100 acres of alfalfa and clover pasture to raise them on.
• Willie Bird's Turkeys - fresh (free range)& smoked poultry products. This family has been raising poultry in Sonoma County for over 75 years
• Prairie Pride Farm - Pork/chicken/angus beef
• Black Wing - Organic & kosher, all natural meats. Their bison meat has less calories & fat than skinless, white chicken!
• Underhill Farms - Fallow deer, Gourmet Venison
• Jamison Farms - Elk meat; wonderful lamb
• Texas Elk Company - Fresh & prepared Elk cuts
• Roast Goose - Fresh goose,whole, or pieces and goose products
• D'Artagnan -Leading purveyor of foie gras, pâtés, sausages, smoked delicacies, organic game and poultry(quail.ducks,guinea hens) , pates, sauages, wild boar bacon. Established on the principles of procuring the freshest, cleanest and most natural products,
• The Buffalo Guys - Buffalo steaks, hot dogs, etc.
• Pfaelzer Brothers - Steaks, meats, appetizers
• Esperya - Authentic Italian food products.  Every Wednesday, fresh meats available from Italy are published
• Allen Brothers -From Chicago, wonderful steakhouse steaks
• Lobels of New York - Prime dry-aged meats; online butcher shop
• FoxFire Farms - Grass fed Lamb - The Parry family runs this Colorado ranch & farm - they practice sustainable agriculture. Their lambs are raised on clover, grass and mother's milk. Fox. No artificial growth hormones, steroids or antibiotics. They are raised in a totally organic, chemical free system. They also sell goat & organic wines.
• Jackson Hole Buffalo Meat Company - Buffalo & elk meats
• Blue Heaven Ostrich Ranch - Ostrich meat and pasta filled w/ ostrich meat
• New Braunfels Smokehouse - Smoked meats/sausage
• Ottomanelli  - Prime aged meats, oven ready roasts, fully cooked meals, seafoods, pastas, breads
• Local Harvest Store - Products of family farmers home to you
• La Quercia - Premium American artisanal made prosciutto & other cured meats. See our blog post
• Fra' Mani - Fennel salame, sausage, bresola, & more handcrafted by nationally recognized chef Paul Bertolli. Bertolli's zeal for authentic handcrafted food brings the art of traditional Italian salumi to America. All-natural pork in the pastoral Italian tradition
• Salumi Artisan Cured Meats - Outstanding products; Salami's :Dario,Finocchiona,Hot Sopressata,Mole,Oregano,Salumi Salami, Smoked Paprika; Cured Meats: Coppa,Culatello, Lamb "Prosciutto",Lomo; For Chefs: Guanciale,Lardo, Pancetta
• Boccalone - Tasty Salty pig parts! Sustainably raised, heritage-breed pork, Italian sea salt, & fresh spices & a lot of time. They use a small-batch, hands-on method and traditional cold curing. Salami, lardo, capocollo, pancetta. If you live in the SF Bay area you can join their Salumi Society, 2x's/month you pick up your Sacchetto (small bag) containing an ever-changing assortment of fresh sausage & salumi selected their 23 varieties of artisan meats.
• Salumeria Biellese - Italian Salamis (phone orders only) Old World style Italian products, with an emphasis on the highest quality. homemade sausages & salamis since 1925.Highest quality ingredients, without artificial colors or flavors.
• Molinari Salame - Through four generations, the Molinari family has provided Americans with the finest in salames and Italian sausages. A family-owned business, P.G. Molinari & Sons continues the tradition of quality.
• Yorkville Meat Emporium - Hungarian Salamis (phone orders only) know for their home-made cold meats: Garlic salami, Tirol salami, Csabai smoked sausage, Boyscout sausage, fresh bacons, pork hocks & hams
• Koglin Royal Hams - 25 types of German salamis and 30 types of hams
• Sausages By Amy - Natural ingredients, hand-chopped garlic, chipotle peppers, fresh cilantro, basil, imported sun-dried tomatoes, cranberries. No preservatives, artificial ingredients, nitrites . Their potsticker are wonderful, full of fresh flavors. The chicken sausages actually have the taste & crisp bite of a prok sausages. The flavors come alive in your mouth, highly recommended.
• Bilinski's - Fresh, all natural chicken sausages - 9 varieties- 4 are organic. They also offer old fashion smoked kielbasa
• Cattaneo Bros. - Jerky/sausages. European style sausages,lean prok, no trimmings, no MSG or added sugar . The jerky is made from all U.S. meat, no sugar and no MSG.
• Mulays Sausage - Homemade Italian sausages; all natural’, no nitrates, no preservatives, no artificial colors or flavors. 85% lean , available in links or ground
• Ulis Famous Sausages - In Seattle's Pike Place Market, Uli's Famous Sausage offers a variety of handmade authentic German and International sausages. German Master Butcher, Uli's tasty sausages are of the highest standard ,contain no coloring agents or preservatives (except where safety dictates).
• Aidell's Sausages - The finest quality poultry and meat with chunks of chopped fruits and vegetables, freshest herbs and aromatics. Fired in specially-designed smokehouse
• Neto's Sausages - Family recipe famous for their portugese sausage,Linguica - they now make many types of sausages. Andouille, Brazillian Calabreza, German, Morcella, Polish Kielbasa and more.
• Grateful Palate - Large variety of bacons from all over the US - this is a great resource for bacon lovers.
• White Tail's Venison Jerky - Farm raised red deer from a family owned/ operated venison farm. Using a diet of natural
  foods assures healthy venison. We sampled the jerky & sticks - very tasty!
• Newsom's Aged Kentucky Country Ham - Smokehouse aged, naturally cured, Kentucky ham.
• Edward's Ham -  Great Virginia Country ham (dry cured). as well as, other smoked meats.
• Calhoun's Country Hams - Country hams, phone orders only
• Loveless Hams and Jams - Smokehouse hams
• Gary West Meats - Jerky/smoked meats - many flavors!
• Citarella - Fine food store
• Chef Shop - Smoked meat and turkey