From the Chilcotin plateau to the Cowichan Valley, BC's regenerative farms work some of the most dramatic landscapes in Canada, and they've solved the delivery problem. Whether you're in Vancouver, Victoria or the Okanagan, there's a farm on this list that will fill your freezer.
How this list was made: every farm below was verified individually (live website, direct-to-consumer sales, and real pasture practices). No feedlots wearing a grass-fed costume, no dead links, no directory spam. Grain-finished operations didn't make the cut.
Quick picks
🥩 Beef first-timers: Aurora View Farms (Prince George)
🧺 Fill the whole freezer: Fresh Valley Farms (grass-fed beef, grass-fed lamb, pastured chicken, pastured pork, eggs)
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The 14 verified regenerative farms in British Columbia
1. Aurora View Farms
📍 Prince George
organic grass-fed beef · lamb · pork
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Certified organic northern BC ranch selling 100% grass-fed and finished beef via farmers markets and home delivery to the Lower Mainland and beyond. If it's your first order, start with their organic grass-fed beef and build from there.
2. Back Valley Ranch
📍 Cache Creek
grass-fed beef
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All-natural, free-range grass-fed beef from BC's semi-arid interior grasslands, sold direct to Kamloops-area customers. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
3. Berryman Brothers
📍 Victoria
pasture-raised beef · pork · chicken · lamb
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Vancouver Island farm and butchery selling local pasture-raised meats, custom quarter and side beef boxes cut to order. If it's your first order, start with their pasture-raised beef and build from there.
4. Big Bear Ranch
📍 Horsefly
grass-fed beef · lamb · pastured pork · poultry
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Certified organic 2,300-acre Cariboo ranch, Certified Grassfed by AGW, delivering monthly to the Lower Mainland, Okanagan, and Prince George. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
5. Cowichan Valley Farms
📍 Duncan
pasture-raised beef
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Duncan farm selling free-range, pasture-raised beef by the quarter, side or whole animal, farm direct to island folks. If it's your first order, start with their pasture-raised beef and build from there.
6. Fresh Valley Farms
📍 Armstrong
grass-fed beef · grass-fed lamb · pastured chicken · pastured pork · eggs
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Certified organic multi-generational Okanagan farm offering 100% grass-fed and pasture-raised meats with delivery around the valley. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
7. Mount Lehman Farm
📍 Abbotsford
grass-fed beef
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Small Fraser Valley farm serving 100% grass-only beef direct to customers in the Abbotsford area. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
8. Parry Bay Sheep Farm
📍 Metchosin
pasture-raised lamb
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A 40-plus-year Metchosin institution supplying pasture-based lamb year-round to Victoria households, butchers and restaurants. If it's your first order, start with their pasture-raised lamb and build from there.
9. Pasture to Plate
📍 Redstone
grass-fed beef · lamb · pastured pork · eggs
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Certified organic Chilcotin ranch raising animals on 160,000 hectares of range, with its own whole-animal butcher shop on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
10. Promise Valley Farm
📍 Duncan
A2 dairy · grass-fed milk · yogurt
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Organic, regenerative Cowichan Valley dairy producing cream-top A2A2 Guernsey milk sold from its own farm store. If it's your first order, start with their A2 dairy and build from there.
11. Spray Creek Ranch
📍 Lillooet
grass-fed beef · pastured pork · pastured chicken · turkey · eggs
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Certified organic, family-run regenerative ranch in the Fraser Canyon delivering pasture-raised meat and eggs to the Sea-to-Sky corridor. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
12. Springford Farm
📍 Nanoose Bay
grass-finished beef
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Vancouver Island family farm raising hormone- and antibiotic-free, grass-finished beef sold by the cut or the side. If it's your first order, start with their grass-finished beef and build from there.
13. Sumas Mountain Farms
📍 Abbotsford
organic grass-fed beef · pastured pork · chicken · eggs
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The Lower Mainland's only certified-organic, lifetime grass-fed and finished beef producer, also raising pastured pork, chicken, and eggs. If it's your first order, start with their organic grass-fed beef and build from there.
14. Yellow Point Farms
📍 Ladysmith
pasture-raised meats · grass-fed beef · eggs
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Yellow Point family farm offering pasture-raised and grass-fed local meats alongside its farm store and u-pick berries. If it's your first order, start with their pasture-raised meats and build from there.
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Which of these farms is closest to you?
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Buying direct in British Columbia: what to know
Vancouver's cheat code is Pasture to Plate: a certified-organic Chilcotin ranch with its own whole-animal butcher shop on Commercial Drive. Spray Creek Ranch delivers down the Sea-to-Sky, and Big Bear Ranch runs monthly deliveries to the Lower Mainland, Okanagan and Prince George. Vancouver Island might be the best-fed place in Canada per capita: Berryman Brothers and Parry Bay around Victoria, Cowichan Valley Farms and Promise Valley (A2 dairy) in Duncan, Springford Farm up in Nanoose Bay, Yellow Point Farms in Ladysmith. In the Okanagan, start with Fresh Valley Farms in Armstrong.
How buying from a farm works (if you never have)
Most of these farms sell three ways: individual cuts from an online store (easiest start), bundle boxes (best variety per dollar), and bulk shares: a quarter, half or whole animal, by far the best price per pound if you have freezer space. A quarter beef fits in a 7 cu ft chest freezer. Order on the farm's website, and don't be shy about emailing the farmer with questions. They answer, usually personally, usually fast.
The part of the animal your farm order won’t include
Here is what happens with almost every quarter- or half-beef order in British Columbia. You get steaks, roasts and ground. You do not get the liver, the heart or the kidney: the three most nutrient-dense cuts on the animal. They are left at the abattoir, or they come home and sit in the freezer until someone quietly throws them out. Ask a farmer and most will tell you the same thing: they can rarely give organs away, because almost nobody asks for them.
That is the gap worth naming. You did the hard part: found the farm, checked how the cattle are actually finished, committed to the freezer space and the up-front cost. And the single thing that most separates pasture-raised from supermarket beef still never reaches the plate.
If your farm will sell you organs, take them. Genuinely. Fresh liver from a farm you have vetted yourself is the best version of this, and it is usually the cheapest protein on the price list. Ask for the liver, heart and kidney when you book. Most farms are glad someone finally did.
If they will not part with them, or the taste and the once-a-year timing are the real barriers, that is the narrow problem we make a product for. Our organs are pasture-raised in New Zealand and Australia, grass-fed and grass-finished year-round, then freeze-dried at low temperature and encapsulated here in Canada. We name the origin openly because a single-ingredient label has nowhere to hide.
The five organs, one capsule
Grass-Fed Beef Organ Complex
Liver, heart, kidney, spleen and pancreas, freeze-dried, nothing else on the label. The nose-to-tail part of a farm order, without the freezer or the frying pan. $54.99, 180 capsules.
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Buying a quarter cow? Know what to ask for.
Our Ancestral Eating Guide covers how to order from a farm, which cuts and organs to request, how to store a bulk buy, and how to actually cook liver so your household will eat it. Free, no cost.
Get the free guide →Frequently asked questions
Which farms deliver to Vancouver?
Based on what the farms themselves publish: Berryman Brothers, Pasture to Plate, Springford Farm. Delivery zones change seasonally, so confirm on the farm's site, or search your postal code in the Rise Farm Finder to see every farm near you, sorted by distance.
Is raw milk legal in Canada?
No. Selling raw (unpasteurized) milk is illegal across Canada. The closest legal option is non-homogenized, vat-pasteurized or A2 whole milk from pasture-based dairies like Promise Valley Farm, which preserves most of what raw-milk seekers are after.
How much does buying a quarter cow cost?
Most farms price bulk beef by hanging weight, and a quarter typically yields 80–110 lb of cut-and-wrapped beef, enough to fill a 7 cu ft chest freezer. Per-pound it works out well below retail for the same quality. Exact prices are on each farm's site; many take deposits and sell out months ahead, so book early.
What does 'regenerative' actually mean on a British Columbia farm?
In practice: animals raised on pasture their whole lives, moved frequently (rotational or adaptive grazing) so the land recovers and improves, without routine antibiotics or added hormones. Labels vary: 'grass-fed and grass-finished,' 'certified organic,' 'Certified Grassfed by AGW.' Read how each farm describes finishing, and ask them directly. Real farmers love this question.
Looking in a neighbouring province? See our farm guides for Alberta · Saskatchewan. New farms are added to the Farm Finder every month. Curious why we care this much about grass? Read Why Grass-Fed.
Mountain pastures, island lamb, organic A2 dairy. BC's list runs deep. The hardest part is choosing one.
Farms listed are independent businesses with no affiliation to Rise Nutrition. We list them because we believe in the regenerative movement. Practices and availability change. Always confirm directly with the farm. Know a British Columbia farm that belongs here? Email hello@risenutritions.ca.
Can’t get to a farm this month? The next-best pantry: grass-fed beef tallow for the skillet, and beef organ capsules for the nutrients a supermarket cut can’t give you, and here’s exactly where we source.
