Last updated: August 3, 2026. Farm details verified at the time of writing; confirm availability with each farm directly.
Between the Annapolis Valley and the Northumberland shore, Nova Scotia's pasture farms punch far above their weight: grain-free Belted Galloway beef, woodland-raised Berkshire pork, and two farms with their own retail presence in Halifax.
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: Bountywoods Farm (Berwick)
🧺 Fill the whole freezer: Wild Pasture Farm (grass-fed beef, lamb, pastured pork, chicken, turkey, eggs)
📍 Closest to you: search your postal code
The 7 verified regenerative farms in Nova Scotia
1. Bountywoods Farm
📍 Berwick
grass-fed beef · woodland pork · pastured chicken · turkey
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Annapolis Valley family farm raising grain-free grass-fed beef, woodland pork, and pastured poultry with online ordering and Halifax-area pickups. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
2. Getaway Farm
📍 Canning
grass-fed beef
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Regenerative beef farm in the Annapolis Valley selling pasture-raised beef through its own Halifax butcher shop and online store. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
3. Longspell Point Farm
📍 Kingsport
grass-fed beef · pastured pork · free-range chicken · turkey
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145-acre organic-practicing farm on the Minas Basin selling grass-fed beef, pasture-fed pork and free-range poultry via the Wolfville Farmers Market and WFM2Go. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
4. MacDougall Meadows
📍 Centre Burlington
pastured chicken · pastured turkey · pastured pork · duck
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Hants County farm producing traceable pasture-raised chicken, turkey, pork and duck with delivery to Halifax and the South Shore. If it's your first order, start with their pastured chicken and build from there.
5. Sweet Earth Farm
📍 Tatamagouche
grass-fed beef · pastured pork · pastured chicken · eggs
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Organic haskap and livestock farm raising grass-fed Belted Galloway beef, forest-raised Berkshire pork and pastured hens, with Halifax deliveries. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
6. Wild Pasture Farm
📍 Truro
grass-fed beef · lamb · pastured pork · chicken · turkey · eggs
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Farm just outside Truro selling grass-fed and pastured meats through its on-farm store, the Truro Farmers' Market, and Dartmouth drop-offs. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
7. Windy View Farm
📍 Kingston
beef · pork · chicken · lamb · turkey · eggs
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Annapolis Valley farm selling free-range beef, pork, chicken, lamb, turkey, and eggs raised without hormones or antibiotics, with weekday farm pickup. If it's your first order, start with their beef and build from there.
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Buying direct in Nova Scotia: what to know
Halifax is better served than most Haligonians realize: Getaway Farm runs its own butcher shop in the city, Bountywoods does Halifax-area pickups from the Valley, Sweet Earth delivers from Tatamagouche, and MacDougall Meadows covers Halifax and the South Shore. In the Valley itself, Longspell Point sells through the Wolfville Farmers Market (and WFM2Go online), with Windy View handling weekday farm pickup in Kingston. Around Truro, Wild Pasture Farm's on-farm store and Truro market stand are the move.
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 Nova Scotia. 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
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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
Where can you buy grass-fed beef in Nova Scotia?
The most direct route is buying from a verified regenerative farm, and this guide lists every one we could verify in the province, including Bountywoods Farm, Getaway Farm and Longspell Point Farm. Most sell by the cut, the box or the quarter, and several deliver to Halifax.
To find regenerative farms near you anywhere in Canada, search your postal code in the Rise regenerative farm finder. And if your farm order skips the organs, that is the gap our freeze-dried organ complex exists to fill.
Which farms deliver to Halifax?
Based on what the farms themselves publish: Bountywoods Farm, Getaway Farm, MacDougall Meadows. 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 everything on this list really pasture-raised?
Every farm here was verified individually: live website, direct sales, and published pasture practices. Grain-finished operations were excluded, even popular ones. Practices can change, so we re-verify the list periodically and remove farms that no longer qualify.
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 Nova Scotia 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 New Brunswick · Prince Edward Island. New farms are added to the Farm Finder every month. Curious why we care this much about grass? Read Why Grass-Fed.
The Annapolis Valley alone could feed Halifax nose-to-tail. Here's your starting lineup.
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 Nova Scotia 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.
