 South
Carolina
The following farms and ranches have certified
that they meet Eatwild's
criteria for producing grassfed meat, eggs and dairy products.
Contact them directly for additional information or to buy
their products.
AD Farm is a small family farm located between
Anderson and Clemson SC. We direct market natural free-range lamb to consumers.
AD Farm utilizes sustainable farming practices
to produce lambs in an environmental friendly pasture-based system.
For product pricing and availability, please contact us or visit
our website.
AD Farm, Susan Duckett and John Andrae, 340
Fants Grove Road, Anderson SC 29625. (864) 933-6286. E-mail:
adfarm@me.com.
Website: http://web.me.com/adfarm.
At Billy's Boer Meat Goat
Farm, LLC, we are excited to offer USDA
Certified and South Carolina Grown Certified select Chevon
Cuts (Goat Meat). Goat Meat is high in protein and lower
in fat, calories, saturated fat, and cholesterol than chicken, beef,
pork, or lamb.
We are conveniently located within 2 hours of Atlanta, Georgia
and Charlotte, North Carolina with Greenville, South Carolina in
between.
There is a difference between
dairy, fiber, and meat goats; we raise only Boer Meat Goats. Meat
goats were specifically developed for their quick growth and massive
muscling to deliver optimum flavor. Our forage, grass fed goats
are pasture raised in a humane, natural environment without hormones,
antibiotics, or animal by-products.
We process
at a maximum weight of 125 pounds, which provides the most tender
cuts. Each cut is shrink wrapped in clear packaging for easy
identification and visual inspection. It is flash frozen
and maintained at minus 10 degrees in our commercial freezer.
To order some of our supreme quality Chevon or Cabrito, visit our
website or give us a call. You will be amazed at the quality! We
ship to all lower 48 states and delivery is available to Atlanta,
Charlotte, and Greenville.
Billy's Boer Meat Goat Farm, LLC. Jim or Gaylene
Carson, 130
Timber Trail, Westminster SC 29693 (located just across
the road from 390 South Retreat Road). (864)
647-8993.
E-mail: info@billysboermeatgoatfarm.com.
Website: http://www.billysboermeatgoatfarm.com.
Brick
House Farms is located in Gaffney, SC and
has been providing farm fresh foods since 1943. We offer pastured,
grass fed Devon and Angus beef; pastured,
free-range eggs from Heritage chickens; pastured, free-range
Label Rouge style chickens; and pastured, free-range Red
Wattle, Berkshire, and Tamworth pork.
Our goal is to preserve some
of the rare heritage breeds that are so important in maintaining
genetic diversity, while providing you and your family with wonderful,
farm fresh all-natural foods. Our animals are
grown on pasture with no hormones, steroids, or antibiotics. The
animals are rotated frequently to fresh pastures.
Brick House Farms currently offers
Devon and Angus beef; pork will be available Fall 2009. Heritage
Royal Palm and Slate turkeys are available for the Holidays.
Order soon, quantities are limited.
Visit our website for more information, farm
updates and specials.
Brick House Farms, Jim and Eve Lyle, 1139
Brick House Road, Gaffney SC 29340. (864) 490-7108.
E-mail: thelylefamily@brickhousefarms1943.com.
Website: http://www.brickhousefarms1943.com.
Butter Patch Jerseys and Jersey Thyme
Farm, a working family operation established in 1981, is now
taking orders for Red Poll and Black Angus pastured beef.
These steers are noted for their natural tenderness and marbling.
They have been pastured on succulent forages and have never received
steroids, antibiotics, or hormone supplements.
You can purchase a whole, half or quarter beef
that has been processed and vacuum sealed at a USDA inspected facility.
We also offer whole Grade A raw milk from our herd of registered
Jersey milk cows, brown eggs from free-range chickens, and
a few lambs will be available this spring.
You can be assured that the food you purchase
from us has been produced naturally and humanely—no confinement
housing. Our quality guarantee is this: We don't sell any food that
we would not allow our grandchildren to eat.
Butter Patch Jerseys and Jersey Thyme Farm,
Mike and Patrice Buck, 175
Dairy Lane, Saluda SC 29138. (864) 445-7399.
E-mail: butterpatchjerseys@embarqmail.com. Website:
pending.
Caw Caw
Creek Pastured Pork is proud to introduce to today's markets
the delicious flavor of the pastured pork that your grandparents
knew and loved. Our production is different from most other pig
farms:
- Our pigs are allowed to roam freely, socialize, and engage in
instinctive pig behaviors such as rooting, wallowing, and foraging.
- Our sows are not crated. Instead they give birth naturally and
express their maternal behavior by building nests.
- We rotate our pigs through the pasture and the woods. The have
free access to water and feed in their paddocks.
- There are no animal by-products in our feed.
- No hormones or routine antibiotics are given to our pigs.
- Our farm has no waste issues, no waste lagoons. Manure is returned
to the soil where it builds fertility.
- Our pork is selected for a high percentage of intramuscular
fat, like a choice steak. Regular pork is dry and flavorless.
Our pork is the other RED meat!
Visit our website for more information or give
us a call. We ship all across the USA.
Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork, Emile DeFelice, Columbia
SC 29205. (803)
917-0794. E-mail: happyhams@cawcawcreek.com
Website: http://www.cawcawcreek.com
Chucktown Chickens are
grown right here in South Carolina on beautiful lake Marion alongside
River Run Farms grass fed beef.
The chickens are never given
any antibiotics, hormones or animal byproducts. The chickens
are grown on fresh green pastures, moved everyday in floorless
cages free to eat all the bugs they can find along with any grass
and seed pods—of which they eat a great amount! Aside
from what they find on pasture, they are fed a natural diet consisting
of corn, soybeans, oats, fish meal, kelp meal, Fertrell's Nutri-balancer
(a probiotic/mineral supplement), brewers yeast and oyster shell.
Our chickens average 3 pounds in weight but are available
from 1.5-5 pounds on occasion. They are vacuum packed and frozen.
As of now (11/09) we are only offering pastured chickens but
hope to increase our products to include pastured turkey, pastured
eggs, and pastured duck in the coming seasons. Look for us at the
farmers markets in
Downtown Charleston (April–December, 8am–2pm) and Mount
Pleasant (April–October, 3pm–dark) or visit our website for
more information.
We really work hard to make sure our chickens are raised properly and we
know you will appreciate the difference and the taste!
Chucktown Chicken, Mike Milligan, 187
River Run Drive, Vance SC 29163. (843) 270-2718. E-mail: chucktownchicken@gmail.com.
Website: http://www.chucktownchicken.com.
Chuckwagon Beef Company, the CW brand,
has been in operation in the low country of South Carolina for
nearly 20 years now. We are Joan and Scott Justice, founders of
the CW; with our four daughters we operate our ranch using
natural, humane and environmentally sustainable practices. Most
importantly, we live on the ranch and the CW is our way of life,
not just a business.
Our temperate climate and long
growing season gives our animals access to lush, year-round grazing.
This enables us to produce superior beef and lamb that
is raised totally on pasture—grass-fed the way nature intended. Our
breeding program using all Angus bulls and predominately angus
cows, produce calves
who are well suited for our grass-fed program.
Our
cattle are never more than 22 months old when they go to our processor. There,
in a USDA inspected, South Carolina facility, the meat is
dry-aged for more than 3 weeks—far longer than most of
the beef you are used to eating. Likewise, our
lambs are never more than 10 months old when they are processed,
also in the USDA facility using the same dry-aging process.
To order some of our high quality
beef or lamb, visit our website or give us a call. Let
the Justice family and the CW be your source for healthy beef and
lamb.
ChuckWagon Beef Company, Joan or Scott Justice,
247
Beachwood Road, Springfield SC 29146. (803) 247-3589.
E-mail: info@cwbeef.com. Website: http://www.cwbeef.com.
Crusader
Farms offers pastured chickens and turkeys, lamb,
eggs from free-range birds, and beef from cattle that
are a Scottish Highlander/Shorthorn cross. (The Highland/Shorthorn
cross won the top prize at the Denver National Stock Show 21 out
of 25 years.)
The basic tenet of Crusader farms is to "have
as near to perfect soil as possible…" This means that
our cattle, sheep, chickens and turkeys will make the best gain
on fresh forage, and we will not have to feed them grains and fillers.
Crusader Farms, David or Kay Morrissey, PO
Box 1312, Anderson
SC 29622. (864) 222-2664. E-mail: crusaderfarms@aol.com
Greenbrier
Farms raises beef cattle that are a Senepol/Angus
cross, resulting in natural tenderness and great taste. The meat
is not only free-range, it's free of animal by-products, growth
hormones and antibiotics. The meat is dry-aged 14 days.
The owners, John and Joyce Palmer, have brought
in llamas to guard their cattle and goats to control their weeds
so that you enjoy beef that is herbicide free.
Greenbrier Farms, John and Joyce Palmer, 772
Hester Store Road, Easley
SC 29640. (888) 859-0125 or (864) 859-0125.
Legacy Family Farm is a local family
farm that believes in growing food the way God intended—naturally.
Vegetables are grown without synthetic fertilizers, harmful chemicals
or pesticides. Animals are raised on pasture with no hormones and
no additives.
We believe that supporting local farmers is
good for our economy, good for our land and good for our society.
Locally grown food is healthier and tastier than conventionally
grown products that are shipped across the country to your local
grocery store. It just makes sense to eat local.
We have pastured
chicken available now and are working hard to bring other products
to market as soon as we can. Our products list will soon include
pastured eggs, grass fed and finished beef and lamb.
You can find us at the Aiken
Farmer's Market in Aiken, SC on Saturday
mornings and we are available at the farm by appointment, just
call ahead of time to make sure we are available. We look forward
to growing you "food fit to eat." God Bless, The folks
at Legacy Family Farm.
Legacy Family Farm, Mark Billings, Joel
Presley, 188
Arrowhead Lake Road, North Augusta SC 29660.
(803) 279-2090.
E-mail: mark@legacyfamilyfarm.com.
Website: http://www.legacyfamilyfarm.com.
Native Meats networks small-scale,
sustainable, pasture-raised producers of poultry, pork, lamb and beef to provide consistent,
quality meats. Through intense supply chain management, Native
Meats works with dozens of farmers throughout the state to insure
that customers get the meat they want when they need it. Not only is the meat produced in South
Carolina, but it is processed and distributed within the
state as well. In other words, Native Meats South Carolina only
ships to South Carolina customers.
Our mission is community development by invigorating local
economies, promoting healthy eating, and being sensitive to environmental
concerns. Our emphasis on South Carolina producers, processors,
distributors and customers helps our economy and reduces carbon-foot
prints.
Our pasture-raised, sustainable farming practices
result in a better-tasting, more healthy meat. For information
on our practices, check out the producer protocol on our website.
Check out our website and
call or e-mail us for more information.
Native Meats, Rollie Knoke, 1872
Sharon Road, Woodruff SC 29388.
(864) 801-2320. E-mail: info@nativemeats.com.
Website: http://www.nativemeats.com.
Oaklyn Plantation Free Range Chicken and
Beef is pleased to offer pastured chickens and turkeys
and grassfed beef. We ship our products to most parts of
the United States but it is most economical for the eastern half
of the country.
Given the climate of the southeast we are able
to raise our product year round. Our cattle are born and raised
on the farm and are mostly Hereford, Angus and now with a little
Jersey mixed in. The poultry receive a ration of grains (primarily
non-GM) and a vitamin mix based on Kelp meal and some fish meal
for protein. They get no antibiotics, coccidiostats or artificial
growth promotants.
Visit our website or call us. Farm visits are
by appointment only.
Oaklyn Plantation Free Range Chicken and Beef,
David and Pattie White, Darlington
SC 29532. (843) 395-0793.
E-mail: thewhites@freerangechicken.com.
Website: http://www.freerangechicken.com.
Old Paths Farm is committed to the goal of producing the world's
best food—food that is nutritious, delicious and reasonably
priced--in a manner that protects, nurtures and improves the land
we're blessed to farm.
In pursuit of that goal, we use no chemical
fertilizers, animal hormones or pesticides of any kind in production
of pastured broilers and laying hens, salad bar beef,
turkeys, pigs and garden vegetables. Customers may
order fresh beef, pork, chicken and turkey, seasonally,
or stop by the farm year-round for frozen goods, baked items, and
other family-produced wares. We welcome visitors to the farm, and
can arrange tours in advance. No Sunday calls or visits, please.
We view our farm as much a ministry as a profitable
business. We want to provide what our customers can't get anywhere
else, namely locally-produced food that's fit to eat and that supports
the rejuvenation and continuation of the family farm for the generations
to come.
Old Paths Farm, Travis and Stacy Childers,
2151 Boiling Springs Hwy, Gaffney
SC 29341-5008. (864) 487-7352.
E-mail: thegoodlife@oldpathsfarm.com.
Website: http://www.oldpathsfarm.com.
Open Range Grassfed Beef has been a
grass based family farm for over 55 years. Our farm is 1570 acres
located in Abbeville County, SC, about an hour drive from Greenville.
We are devoted to raising natural grassfed to finished Angus beef on
grasslands grown on mineral rich soils.
All of our cattle are
born and raised right here on our farm. They do not receive grain,
hormones or antibiotics. They are handled as stress free as possible.
We produce great tasting gourmet quality beef that is healthy for
your family. It is processed locally, aged 21 days and vacuum
packed for flavor and freshness. We offer a whole, half or split
half.
Anyone interested in eating wild, please give
us a call and visit anytime.
Open Range Grassfed Beef, Billy and Cameron
Wright, PO Box 68, Lowndesville
SC 29659. (864) 348-2706.
E-mail:
suzwright55@yahoo.com.
Ovis Hill Farm produces grass
fed and pasture raised beef, lamb, free range eggs, chicken,
and certified
organic vegetables (certified by Clemson University).
We practice rotational
grazing using a combination of permanent pastures with seasonal
no-till planting. We offer educational programs for schools
and groups as well as host an on-farm annual Fall Family Farm Festival
featuring arts and crafts, sheep shearing, fiber artist, games,
meal from our products, hay rides with border collie demonstration,
and more.
Our beef, lamb and chicken is processed
at a USDA inspected packing plant that is Halal and Certified
Humane.
Our beef is dry aged 30 days, lamb 10 to 14 days, then cut, vacuum
packed and flash frozen to preserve freshness. Our meats
are offered in bulk or by the cut at our markets and in our on-farm
store. We network with other SC farms to offer our collective
products at our markets (see Eatwild's So.
Carolina Beyond the Farm page
for details). Shipping
is possible.
Ovis Hill Farm, Charlie Caldwell, 1501
Weaver Street, Timmonsville SC 29161. (843) 992-9447. E-mail: charlie@ovishillfarm.com.
Website: http://www.ovishillfarm.com.
At Park Creek Farm and
Preserve, 33 acres of
our 36 acre farm is a preserve with a variety of plants and animals
including beaver, herons, mink, otters. A trail is the only use
of this acreage. The three front acres have a variety of berries,
fruit and pasture for our free range (in tractors which are moved
daily) hens.
We sell eggs, vegetables and fruit in season. Blackberries and
blueberries are our primary fruit. We farm organically.
We also offer shares of our food in a CSA (Community Supported
Agriculture) program.
We are 10 miles from Abbeville, 40 from Greenville,
25 from Anderson, 8 from Honea Path. Someone
is usually home.
Park Creek Farm and Preserve, Errol Hess and
Barbara Ervin, 355
Mt. Lebanon Road, Donalds SC 29638. (864)
379-8061.
E-mail: errol@kitenet.net.
Peaceful
Meadows Farm, a family farm established in 1996, is owned
and operated by Philip and Sheila Brooks and Jeremy and Laura Brooks.
It is located just 25 miles from the Charlotte city limits in eastern
Union County, NC, and just 9 miles from the South Carolina state
border.
Our animals are grown completely from birth
on our farm and enjoy wide open free range, sunshine and fresh
air. We never use pesticides, chemicals, hormones, antibiotics
or other growth enhancers in our production of beef or pork.
Although we are not officially organic we
are very careful to use organic practices in raising our livestock.
At present our cattle are a mix of Black Angus,
Red Angus and Red Devon. They are completely grass-fed without
ever receiving any grain. Our pork consist of the Berkshire
and Tamworth Heritage breeds that are crossed to provide a delightful
eating experience of ruby colored meat with a rich distinctive
flavor. They eat a diet of home blended grains with organic mineral
supplements, as well as grass, berries and nuts found in the wooded
pastures.
All of our meat is processed in a very clean
USDA facility and packaged in clear vacuum sealed packages. We
sell both the beef and pork in bulk quantities picked up at the
farm. Watch our web site for offerings in the near future for pricing
by the cut or smaller sample packages.
Our products are available at various
times throughout the year, so it is best to send us an email address
notifying us of your interest. It is our practice to send
out a broadcast email at least a month in advance of when we plan
to have bulk meat to be purchased.
Your questions are welcomed any time about
our products or our farm in general.
Peaceful Meadows Farm, Philip H. Brooks, 1740
Camden Road, Marshville NC 28103. (704) 233-4902.
E-mail: peacefulmeadowsfarm@windstream.net.
Website: http://www.peacefulmeadowsfarm.com.
Red
Fern Farm specializes in grass-fed beef and
lamb, using intensive grazing techniques for all our livestock.
We raise Tunis sheep for wool and meat and Angus steers for beef.
Meat is sold in halves or wholes. Wool rovings
and pelts are also available in limited quantities. We also raise
seasonal organic produce and blueberries. Call ahead for availability.
Red Fern Farm, Katherine Mizell, 2031 Harris
Grove Church Road, Gray
Court SC. 29645. (864) 876-2392. E-mail: katherine@redfernfarms.com
Website: http://www.redfernfarms.com
River Run Farms is located in the beautiful
Santee Cooper Lake country of South Carolina, near the town of
Santee. Plentiful rainfall and moderate temperatures allow us to
grow and graze grass and legumes on 400 acres year-round. Our commitment
to sustainability means no pesticides, herbicides or synthetic
fertilizers are used on the farm.
With our own herd of Angus mama cows, our calves
are born on our farm and spend their whole lives here. They go
from mama's milk to grass, grass hay and mineral salt which is
their entire diet. They are antibiotic, hormone, vaccination, wormer,
and most importantly grain-FREE. Average live weight at harvest
is 1000 pounds, and average age at harvest is 24 months.
Our beef is USDA inspected, dry aged
for 21 days, and vacuum packaged and frozen. We sell it by the
individual cut or in packages from 10 pounds all the way up to
a whole cow. We also make specialty items like beef
jerky, snack
sticks and all beef garlic brats.
You can find us at farmers markets in Charleston,
Mt. Pleasant, and Columbia, or you'd be welcome to come to the
farm. Give us a call.
River Run Farms, The Olivers: Ray, Nancy, Les
and Page, 187
River Run Drive, Vance SC 29163. (803) 492-9878.
E-mail: riverrunfarms@live.com.
Shadow
Lane Farm is a small family run business dedicated to raising top
quality pastured livestock in a sustainable manner. We raise
lambs, turkeys and chickens on grass and sunshine, producing happy
livestock and happy customers.
Orders can be taken either
by email or phone, and can be picked up at the farm or delivered
locally. Please don't hesitate to ask for special requests!
Shadow Lane Farm, Craig Thompson and Sarah
Heffron, 1077
Shadow Lane Road, Wagener SC 29164. (803) 634-0379.
E-mail: shadowlanefarm@gmail.com.
Sharon Rose Farm is a
small family farm which prides itself on producing the best possible
pasture-raised beef, lamb, pork, poultry,
potatoes, cornmeal and
wheat berries, raised in a healthy, natural, controlled environment
that honors our Creator, our land and our customers.
During the growing season our beef and sheep are rotated to fresh
paddocks daily. The laying hens are moved every other day and are
free to roam, scratch and peck. The pastured broilers are raised
May through October in portable huts that are also moved daily to
fresh, clean pasture.
However, because of our small size, supplies may be limited. But
we are doing our best to increase production without sacrificing
quality.
The Sharon Rose Farm is located just five miles off I-85 and eight
miles off I-26 in the Upstate of South Carolina so we're easy to
find.
For more information and availability of products please call Rollie
Knoke or e-mail.
Sharon Rose Farm, Rollie Knoke, (864) 444-9048,
1872 Sharon Road, Woodruff
SC 29388. E-mail: rollie@sharonrosefarm.com.
Website: http://www.sharonrosefarm.com.
Talley
Valley Farm is located near the headwater of the Saluda watershed
on the banks of the South Saluda River. This pristine mountain valley
has been in our family for 4 generations and is the setting for
our grass based farming system. Our farming operation focuses on
three main criteria:
- Be ever improving stewards of the land, waterways, and associated
ecosystem;
- Be dedicated to the humane treatment and welfare of our animals;
- Provide our customers with the safest, tastiest, and healthiest
food products possible.
Our grass fed Black Angus beef is hormone-free,
antibiotic-free, young, lean and tender. The animals are grazed
on fresh grass and hay produced on our farm. The beef is USDA inspected,
dry aged, and vacum packaged. We offer various quantities for purchase
from 10–12 pound weekend party packages to whole beefs. We
also offer fresh free-range brown eggs and
free-range poultry.
We enjoy our rural heritage and roots. Like many areas of the country
this is fast disappearing in upstate South Carolina. Thus we encourage
visits from customers and parties interested in preserving agrarian
lifestyles.
As our farm evolves we may be offering other
products. Contact us and if we cannot provide you with the product
you desire we may be able to recommend others.
Talley Valley Farms: Glen and Holly Crowe, JR Revis, 433 Talley
Bridge Road, Cleveland
SC. 29635. (864) 836-0840
E-mail: tvfarm@bellsouth.net
Website: http://talleyvalleyfarm.com
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