Quebec's pasture movement is quietly excellent: grass-fed beef shipped from Abitibi, lamb from the Eastern Townships, and family farms with their own on-site butcher shops delivering across greater Montreal. Voici les meilleures.
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: Ferme A. Lauzon (Très-Saint-Rédempteur)
🧺 Fill the whole freezer: Ferme O'Nature: pastured beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, rabbit
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The 9 verified regenerative farms in Quebec
1. Ferme A. Lauzon
📍 Très-Saint-Rédempteur
beef · pastured pork · chicken · eggs
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Montérégie family farm raising free-range Angus beef, pastured pork, grain-fed chicken and laying hens with direct farm sales. If it's your first order, start with their beef and build from there.
2. Ferme Brylée
📍 Thurso
grass-fed beef · grass-fed lamb · pork
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Outaouais farm producing hormone- and antibiotic-free grass-fed beef and lamb sold by the cut, quarter or half from its pristine pastures. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
3. Ferme O'Nature
📍 Roxton Pond
pastured beef · pork · lamb · chicken · turkey · rabbit
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Brosseau family farm with an on-farm butcher shop near Granby raising beef, pork, lamb and poultry freely on pasture without hormones or antibiotics. If it's your first order, start with their pastured beef and build from there.
4. Ferme Thuya
📍 Low
pastured chicken · pastured pork · beef · eggs
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Regenerative homestead farm in the Gatineau Hills selling organic-fed, pasture-raised chicken, pork, beef and eggs online. If it's your first order, start with their pastured chicken and build from there.
5. Ferme d'ORée
📍 Newport
grass-fed beef · heritage pork · chicken · lamb · eggs
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Estrie farm with an on-site butcher shop raising grass-fed beef, heritage pork, lamb, chicken, and eggs, delivering throughout greater Montreal and Quebec. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
6. Grazing Days
📍 Saint-André-Avellin
grass-fed beef · pastured pork · pastured chicken
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Family farm in the Outaouais selling grass-fed beef and pastured meats by subscription and by the cut, delivered to Ottawa, Gatineau, and Montreal. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
7. Les Fermes Valens
📍 Huntingdon
organic grass-fed beef · pork · chicken · lamb
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Organic family farm in Huntingdon delivering grass-fed and natural meats to homes across greater Montreal and much of Quebec. If it's your first order, start with their organic grass-fed beef and build from there.
8. Pâturages du Lac Brome
📍 Lac-Brome
grass-fed lamb
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Eastern Townships farm specializing in grass-fed pasture lamb sold through its online boutique. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed lamb and build from there.
9. Écoboeuf
📍 Dupuy
grass-fed beef
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Abitibi farm raising exclusively grass-fed beef with regenerative agriculture practices, shipped direct across Quebec. If it's your first order, start with their grass-fed beef and build from there.
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Buying direct in Quebec: what to know
Montrealers have three strong delivery options: Ferme d'ORée (with its own butcher shop, delivering across the metro area), Les Fermes Valens (organic, home delivery through most of southern Quebec), and Grazing Days, which runs subscriptions from the Outaouais into Montreal, Ottawa and Gatineau. In the Townships, Pâturages du Lac Brome is the lamb specialist and Ferme O'Nature near Granby covers the full barnyard. Écoboeuf ships its Abitibi grass-fed beef province-wide.
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 Quebec. 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.
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Which farms deliver to Montreal?
Based on what the farms themselves publish: Ferme d'ORée, Grazing Days, Les Fermes Valens. 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 Quebec 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 Ontario · New Brunswick. New farms are added to the Farm Finder every month. Curious why we care this much about grass? Read Why Grass-Fed.
From the Outaouais to Estrie, Quebec farmers are proving regenerative can be world-class. Bon appétit.
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 Quebec farm that belongs here? Email hello@risenutritions.ca.
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