Local beef near San Luis Obispo, CA

Santa Margarita, CA

🐄 Beef

grass-fed, organic, dry-aged

Organic grass-finished beef sold as quarters, halves and wholes, dry-aged 27 days, with a waiting list for the several releases each year. Orders in California ship for a flat $50, or smaller boxes go through a partner butcher in Paso Robles.

San Miguel, CA

🐄 Beef

pasture-raised, grass-fed, grain-finished, hormone-free

Quarter, half and whole beef, either grass-finished or finished on ranch-grown barley and grain for 90 days. Reservations are open for 2027 and you pick up frozen boxes at Ranchita Meat Company in San Miguel; no shipping.

King City, CA

🐄 Beef

grass-fed

Beef shares reserved with a deposit in eighth, quarter, half and whole sizes, alongside individual cuts in a Shopify store. Shares were showing sold out at the last check, so expect to join a list between harvests.

Paicines, CA

🐄 Beef · 🐑 Lamb · 🐔 Chicken · 🧺 Other

regenerative

Steaks, roasts and other beef cuts priced individually in an online ranch store, with lamb, chicken, packages and heat-and-serve meals in the same shop. The ranch sits near Pinnacles National Park in San Benito County.

Bakersfield, CA

🐄 Beef

Fourth-generation ranch north of Bakersfield selling eighth, quarter, half and whole beef on deposit, plus a ground beef sampler. Everything is ordered through the online store.

Santa Paula, CA

🐄 Beef

hormone-free

Angus raised on a 4,300-acre Ventura County ranch and sold as shares and ground beef bundles through an online store. Sales open in pre-order rounds, so the email list is how you hear when beef is available.

Sanger, CA

🐄 Beef

Fresno County ranch on its fourth generation selling steaks and beef boxes through an online shop and delivers them.

San Juan Bautista, CA

🐄 Beef

grass-fed, dry-aged

Dry-aged beef sold as quarter, half and whole animals, plus 45 pound ground beef boxes and specialty cuts, ordered on a Grazecart store. Pickup locations and home delivery are listed for the Central Coast and Bay Area.

Caliente, CA

🐄 Beef

hormone-free

Grain-finished mountain-pasture beef in individual cuts, boxes and subscriptions. Pickup is at the ranch, at a Thursday meet-up in Tehachapi and the Kern River Valley, or at Ridgecrest Market, with Tuesday evening delivery in Bakersfield.

Caliente, CA

🐄 Beef

grass-fed, grain-finished, hormone-free, dry-aged

Quarter, half and whole beef from cattle run in the mountains east of Bakersfield, dry-aged 12 to 18 days and cut to order at a local butcher. Orders by phone, email or the online store, with pickup or delivery around Bakersfield.