PEI's red soil grows more than potatoes. The island's regenerative farms raise beef on pasture and cover-crop forage, run pastured-chicken CSAs, and deliver combined veggie-and-meat boxes to Charlottetown and Summerside. All four verified farms, below.
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: Crystal Green Farms (Bedeque)
🧺 Fill the whole freezer: Crystal Green Farms (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, eggs, organic vegetables)
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The 4 verified regenerative farms in Prince Edward Island
1. Barnyard Organics
📍 Freetown
organic pastured chicken · eggs · organic grains
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Certified organic family grain and poultry farm running a pastured chicken and egg CSA with farm-gate sales. If it's your first order, start with their organic pastured chicken and build from there.
2. Crystal Green Farms
📍 Bedeque
beef · pork · lamb · chicken · eggs · organic vegetables
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Certified organic farm raising its own beef, pork, lamb and chickens alongside veggie box deliveries to Summerside and Charlottetown. If it's your first order, start with their beef and build from there.
3. Hope River Farm
📍 Hope River
pastured pork · pastured chicken · lamb · duck
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Pasture-based farm near Cavendish selling pastured and grass-fed meats through its on-site farm store and monthly online delivery. If it's your first order, start with their pastured pork and build from there.
4. Kingston View Farms
📍 Kingston
grass-fed beef
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Third-generation regenerative PEI beef farm feeding cattle only pasture, cover-crop forage, and hay, selling quarter and eighth beef packages online. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
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Buying direct in Prince Edward Island: what to know
Kingston View Farms is the beef anchor: third-generation, cattle fed only pasture, forage and hay, selling quarters and eighths online. Barnyard Organics in Freetown runs the island's pastured chicken and egg CSA. Crystal Green Farms delivers organic boxes to both Charlottetown and Summerside, and Hope River Farm's store near Cavendish covers pastured pork, chicken, lamb and duck with monthly online delivery.
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 Prince Edward Island. 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 Charlottetown?
Based on what the farms themselves publish: Crystal Green Farms. 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 Prince Edward Island 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 Nova Scotia · New Brunswick. New farms are added to the Farm Finder every month. Curious why we care this much about grass? Read Why Grass-Fed.
Four farms, one island, zero excuses not to eat well.
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 Prince Edward Island 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.
