Tennessee

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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:

The Bradburn Farm is owned by Connie and Anthony Bradburn and has been in Connie’s family since the late 1800’s. The family received this farm through a land grant. We are located in Lawrence county and about 70 miles of south of Nashville.

We have a limited number of grass finished beeves available each year.  Customers may buy the beef in quarters, halves or whole, and then choose how they would like to have it cut and packaged. Delivery to the processor is included in the price.

Our beef is raised pasture to plate on grasses and clovers and are never supplemented with grain. Rotational grazing is utilized to grow and finish our beef and provides fresh pasture with every move. Free choice minerals are provided for the animals. No antibiotics or hormones are used on our animals. 

Bradburn Farms, Anthony Bradburn, 74 Cross Road, Ethridge TN  38456. (931) 231-0743. E-mail: c-bradburn@hotmail.com.

Ford Farm in Cohutta is a small family farm in North Georgia between Dalton, Georgia and Cleveland, Tennessee—very close to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Our cattle graze well maintained pastures and are fed locally grown hay when grass is not available. Just as important as their feed source, they have clean well water available to drink.

We sell by the half and whole beef, mostly in late fall and early winter. We also sell frozen ground beef in 1 lb packages when available. Our prices include delivery to one of several processors in our area. We can also deliver your purchase for a small agreed upon fee.

Ford Farm, Mike and Beth Ford, 1275 Emerson Road, Cohutta GA  30710. (706) 694-4695. E-mail:fordmb1@windstream.net. .
Website: http://www.purebeef.onlinelocalweb.com/

Welcome to Gourmet Pasture Beef where fresh air, water, sunshine and lush pastures create a special beef unique to middle Tennessee. We use these natural ingredients to craft highly marbled works of art showcasing what first-class beef is meant to be; naturally wholesome with a rich, full flavor you will savor.

We raise only the finest grass-finished beef on high quality, local forages here in Robertson County. Rest assured we only offer beef made with natural ingredients - and never any artificial growth stimulants (hormones).

Each cut is hand butchered in a local USDA facility where it is dry-aged for a minimum of 14 days to insure you receive home raised quality in every bite! Treat yourself to a naturally juicy steak or make memorable dishes with our Gourmet ground beef and roasts conveniently delivered to your door.

When you simply want the best taste with nutritional advantages unique to grass-fed beef, trust the experience you will find in our products. Only the best for you and your family, from our pasture to your plate, as nature intended.

Gourmet Pasture Beef, Josh and Kathy Gunn, 5458 Gunn Road, Springfield, TN 37172. (615) 504-2046.
E-mail: steak@gourmetpasturebeef.com.
Website: http://www.gourmetpasturebeef.com.

Harper Farms, a small family farm in the tri-cities region of Northeast Tennessee/Southwest Virginia, raises grass fed, hormone-free beef.

We offer tender, tasty and healthy beef by the side or whole and are now offering individual cuts as availability allows. We use a USDA facility for processing and packing the meat. Our sides are cut to your specifications and all orders over $100 have free delivery in the Tri-cities region. Customers outside the region can arrange for a convenient meeting location.

Our farm is devoted to raising healthy and strong cattle without growth hormones or antibiotics. All our cattle are pasture fed or hay supplemented, never confined or force fed. We offer strictly grass finished, or cattle finished with about 5 pounds of grain per day (no growth antibiotics) for up to 45 days.

Harper Farms, Paul and Brenda Harper, 500 N Ketron Town Road, Gate City VA  24251. (423) 534-3098.
E-mail: paulhar50@hotmail.com.
Website: http://www.harperfarms.us.

At Laurel Creek Farm our goal is to provide the highest quality meat possible to our customers. We strive to make the world a better place as we make our living. We have 500 acres of grass that we intensively manage to create organic matter and to put in motion natural biodynamic principles which improve fertility.  We have a larger size than most direct marketers which allows us to have more volume and lower prices.

We offer grassfed beef, pasture raised pork, pasture raised chicken and duck eggs, grassfed lamb and goat, pasture raised chicken, turkey and duck. We also sell rabbit, quail and pheasant.

We meet folks with deliveries when possible, and mail order within our region.

My family extends a big thank you to all those who support grass-based agriculture. You are wonderful!

Laurel Creek Farm, Tracy Monday, 3115 Williams Bend Road, Knoxville TN  37932. (865) 680-1739.
E-mail: tmonday@laurelcreekmeat.com.
Website: http://www.laurelcreekmeat.com.

Lone Oak Farm is unlike traditional cattle farms in that Pat Hankins has a tremendous passion for the “process” of farming. With more than 20 years of farming experience on very large farms, he decided to take a different approach.

Pat's vision for Lone Oak Farm is one of purism. He is raising 100% grass fed Tennessee beef in a strict organic (not certified) environment. His cattle are inoculated for normal bovine maladies, but NO antibiotics are used. He NEVER uses hormone supplements, NOR do his animals receive animal by-product feed. NO chemical insecticides or chemical worming medicines are used. 

Depending on the season, Pat has a variety of cuts of meat available. Because Lone Oak Farm is smaller in scale than most farms, we do not ship our beef. We feel that shipping all around the country we would be destroying the very environment that we are trying to preserve. We make local deliveries or you may pick up directly from the butcher.

Pat Hankins is passionate about sharing the environmental and health benefits of raising and consuming grass-fed beef. To learn more, visit our website.

For Sale: Three grass-fed heifers between the ages of 7 and 9 months. All are from our Barzona bull and crossed with either our South Poll or Black Angus cows. All three are red; two have some white on their face and are from bloodlines that will finish on grass. These females can be used for breeding or processing. Asking price is $800 each.

Lone Oak Farm, Pat Hankins, 3188 Spring Place Road, Lewisburg TN  37091. (931) 359-4104. E-mail: pjhank171@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.loneoaktn.com.

Mountain Fork Farm is located in the mountains of North Alabama, just across the border from Tennessee. We are a family operated sustainable farm raising pastured broilers, turkeys and laying hens for eggs. We also grow heirloom tomatoes, numerous types of lettuce, greens and spinach, as well as, a wide variety of other vegetables. We continue to grow head lettuce, mesclun (fresh leaf lettuce mix), radishes and other vegetables throughout the winter.

Though we are not certified organic, we use organic and natural practices in all our growing. Similarly, our animals are raised on pasture and provided a choice of feed that does not include drugs or chemicals.

Our broilers and turkeys are custom raised and available on a monthly basis, so plan on preordering. We’ll be happy to help. Our produce is available either for pick-up at the farm or delivery in nearby towns. We send out weekly emails of what’s available.

Mountain Fork Farm, Melissa and John Larsen, 1557 Mountain Fork Road, New Market AL 35761. (256) 379-4762.
E-mail: mlarsen@ardmore.net.
Website: http:www.mountainforkfarm.com.

At Paradigm Farms we raise natural, grass-fed beef. Our farm is located on 100+ rolling acres in middle Tennessee (Williamson County). We use no antibiotics, steroids, or growth hormones. Our cattle are on pasture 24/7, 365 days per year.

Customers may buy meat by the side, and choose how their sides are cut and packaged. We offer free delivery in the Middle Tennessee area and we also ship to other areas. We believe in, and practice, sustainable farming practices.

Paradigm Farms, Jason and Melissa Webb, PO Box 186, College Grove TN 37046. (615) 368-2325.
E-mail: jasonwebbca2000@yahoo.com.
Website: http://www.webbfamilyfarms.com.

Peaceful Pastures All Natural Meats provides grassfed, pasture-raised chickens, turkeys, pork, lamb, goat, duck and goose. They also produce raw, grassfed milk (goat and cow) and other dairy products. No antibiotics or supplemental hormones are used and the meats are cruelty and confinement free.

Peaceful Pastures is a member of Pick Tennessee Products, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and Slow Foods. Dairy goats, pigs, sheep and some of the dairy cows are rare heritage breeds.

Fleece from Lincoln Longwool sheep is available for hand spinning and felting. Goat meat is seasonal (early fall), but all other meats are available year-round and are USDA inspected. The products are available at the farm and can also be shipped via Fed Ex Second Day or Ground. CSA memberships are available as well. We ship nationwide and have buying clubs serving Atlanta, GA; Jacksonville, FL; and Tampa, FL.

Peaceful Pastures All Natural Meats, Darrin and Jenny Drake, 69 Cowan Valley Lane, Hickman TN 38567. (615) 683-4291. E-mail: NaturalMeat@aol.com   Website: www.peacefulpastures.com

Red Gates Farm raises grass-finished Angus and Angus-cross beef on rotationally grazed, naturally fertile bottomland pastures in the scenic Sequatchie Valley near Chattanooga, TN.

Treatment of the animals takes into account their emotional as well as physical needs. Shade and clean well water available in every pasture. Water supply is mobile to minimize erosion and compaction. No added hormones or antibiotics. Predator and songbird friendly. Quality of the grass and clover is managed by environmentally sensitive grazing practices, not chemical inputs. In order to better match the cattle to their environment, we are now using South Poll bulls to bring more heat and insect resistance to the herd while maintaining good grass finished meat quality. Visitors are welcomed.

Beef from small and medium-sized animals available by the quarter - aged, cut, cryo-vacced and labeled for pick-up at the nearby processor. Reasonable prices. Free copy of Pasture Perfect with first order.

Red Gates Farm, Georgiana Kotarski, 1994 McWilliams Road, Dunlap TN 37327. E-mail: redgatesfarm@gmail.com.
Website: http://www.georgianakotarski.com/RedGatesFarm

Rocky Glade Farm is located in the Middle Tennessee area in rural Eagleville. We raise 100% grass-fed beef and lamb. Our beef and lamb is born and raised here on the farm, so we know our animals from their birth until they are finished and transported to the processor. 

Our grass-fed beef is available as custom half freezer beef delivered to the processor. Grass-fed lamb is available in whole lambs delivered to the processor.

We utilize rotational grazing to grow and finish our beef and lamb supplementing their diet with free choice salt, kelp, and minerals.  All of our animals are raised with their best health in mind, and, in turn yours as well. They are never given supplemental grain, growth hormones, nor are any animals treated with antibiotics used as meat animals. 

Feel free to contact us for more information via email, or visit our website and sign up for our email newsletter for more product availability and farm information.

Rocky Glade Farm, Jim and Julie Vaughn, 2397 Rocky Glade Road, Eagleville TN  37070. (615) 274-3496.
E-mail: jvaughn@rockygladefarm.com.
Website: http://www.rockygladefarm.com

Rolling Hills Farm is dedicated to make sure our processes are natural and sustainable. We do not feed our animals antibiotics or use any growth hormones. Our animals enjoy the sunshine and fresh air, they have fresh natural spring water to drink and fresh pastures to roam.

We currently offer beef by the side, split side, or sampler package. The beef is vacuum-sealed and frozen at our local USDA inspected processor. Your meat can be picked up at the farm or we can ship up to a 150 mile radius. We also have eggs available for farm pick up only.

Just like our grandparents, we raise our animals in a humane method that allows them to enjoy being exactly what they are. If God put them on the earth to graze in tall fresh grass, they will graze in tall fresh grass. If they were meant to dig up roots and tubers and enjoy acorns and chestnuts, that is the environment we try to provide. They may enjoy dust baths, eating bugs and fresh shoots of grass. You will be confident of the wisdom of this approach once you try our fresh pastured eggs or beef.

Rolling Hills Farm, Rod and Heidi Trusler, 2520 Bruce McCaleb, Duck River TN 38454. (931) 583-2279. E-mail: heidi@rollinghillsfarm.com. Website: http://www.rollinghillsfarm.com.

The Sanders Farm is located in the foothills of Clinch Mountain in upper east Tennessee, close to neighboring Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. We have tended a small beef cow/calf herd at our family farm since 1979. 

We have kept our pasture and hayfields herbicide and pesticide-free for those 30 years. We use no antibiotics, pesticides or growth stimulants of any kind on any animal to be sold on Eatwild. Flies are kept under control with a walk-through fly trap. The calves I am selling eat only our own pasture and hay and mother's milk. They are always free-ranging with their mothers and the rest of the closed herd until the day they are processed.

I prefer to sell my calves whole in the late Spring or Fall. Hanging weight is around 300 pounds and take-home meat averages 200 pounds. I deliver your calf to a local butcher and you pick up your frozen meat there. You decide how long you want your meat aged and how you want it cut and packaged. My price is $2.50 per pound of hanging weight and the butcher charges around $.40 per pound based on hanging weight.

I also at times have milk and grass-finished beef by the package. It is USDA inspected and weighed, vacuum-packed and frozen. I will email you a price list. Pickup for this meat would be in the Rogersville, TN area.

We would rather sell our beef calves to individuals who want untainted beef than into the feedlot industry where they live a little longer but in an unnatural and highly stressful way.

The Sanders Farm, Doris Sanders, 235 Clinch Valley Road, Eidson TN 37731. (423) 921-8489. E-mail: hydro_8@hotmail.com.

Certified Organic  by Stellar Certification Services

Sequatchie Cove Farm is a 300 acre community farm located 35 miles from Chattanooga, TN. We are certified organic by Stellar Certification Services, certified biodynamic by Demeter Certification, and our beef is certified humane by Animal Welfare Approved Certification.

Using holistic management principles along with biodynamic practices, we farm in harmony with nature. Our diversified, multi-enterprize farm is focused on enhancing the health of our animals, our ecosystem, and our rural community.

We raise rare-breed American Milking Devon cows for milk (for cheese) and meat, Large Black and Old Spot heritage breed pigs on pasture and forest, and pastured laying hens for eggs. We have a diverse 2-acre market garden that includes vegetables, berries, herbs, and shiitake mushrooms. Dancing Fern Nursery is also part of the farm and propagates hundreds of southeastern native perennials.

We sell all of our products in Chattanooga at the Main Street Farmer's Market (Wednesdays from 4-6pm), and our meats are available daily at Greenlife Grocery (Chattanooga) in the meat department and cafe/deli. Our products are featured seasonally in several restaurants in the Chattanooga area. We also sell meats through the online farmer's market in Sewanee, TN (Cumberland Farmer's Market). We offer bulk meat custom orders to families and individuals, and can arrange for delivery to the customer.

Our on-farm Trading Post is open Monday-Saturday 9am-4pm central time; please call (423) 619-5867 before you come to insure we have what you are looking for readily available.

Sequatchie Cove Farm, Bill Keener or Padgett Arnold, 320 Dixon Cove Road, Sequatchie TN  37374. (423) 619-5867 or (423) 942-9201.
E-mail: bill.keener@sequatchiecovefarm.com. or padgett_arnold@yahoo.com.
Website: www.sequatchiecovefarm.com.

Shady Grove Farm is located in rural east TN at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau west of Knoxville. We are a small family farm with 80 acres of pasture and woods. We also manage two adjacent parcels for grazing. We offer grass-fed beef, grass-fed lamb, pastured poultry, and free-range eggs.

We began farming with the intent to raise our own foods products to know first hand the origin and health of our meats. We enjoyed the food and farming so much that we began offering our meats to family and then friends. Since then our customer base has continued to grow by word of mouth until this year when we expanded through advertising. We only sell what we ourselves would eat.

Our animals are moved twice daily to new pasture using management intensive grazing techniques.These techniques allow more evenly distributed fertilization, long rest times before re-grazing, and help in the healing of the land. Healthy land produces healthy food which in turns produces healthy people.

Feeds for our animals consist of grasses, hay, and minerals for the cattle and sheep. The poultry receive only natural grain based feeds along with what nature provides in the way of grasses/greens, seeds, and bugs.

"Local" is the key to knowing where your food comes from and how it is raised. The majority of our customers are within a 200 mile radius ranging from Knoxville to Cookville and as far south as Chattanooga.

We welcome visitors to our farm to observe first hand how a healthy farm is managed. Come for a visit.

Shady Grove Farm and Sawmill, Jeff Price, 985 Shady Grove Road, Lancing TN 37770. (423) 346-2901. E-mail: jefprice1@highland.net.
Website: http://www.shadygrovefarms.net.

Tennessee Valley Farms is nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in the Tennessee Valley. Its beautiful pastures have been home to beef cattle for over 150 years. Our pure-bred Black Angus cattle are derived from Knoxville's own Strong Stock Foundation herd, started in 1942. They are well acclimated to local grasses and climate. We are USDA-approved to claim that our herd is 100% Grass Fed, Raised Entirely on Open Pasture, Humanely Raised, and given no Antibiotics or added Hormones.

Our mission is to provide you the highest quality 100% grass fed beef.  Because our cattle are raised and pastured locally, you always know where your beef comes from.   

Our beef is hand-cut in a USDA facility and dry-aged for 14 days to increase tenderness and improve flavor and texture. It's available in individual cuts, each in its own vacuumed sealed package, or in halves or quarters.

For more information, or to place an order, just e-mail or call.

Tennessee Valley Farms, Joyce Feld, PO Box 50893, Knoxville, TN 37950. (865) 525-4007. E-mail: Info@tnvalleyfarms.com.
Website: http://www.tnvalleyfarms.com.

The Top of the World Farm is the Sanders Family. Our parents had seven children and six of us are still here, directly involved on the farm everyday. There are now more than eight of us, and most of the time we number around fifteen farmers from ages 50+ down to 2 months old.

We raise Scotch Highland cattle, Khatadin sheep, and Tamworth cross pigs, which we offer for sale in quarters (for beef only), halves, and wholes.

We feed our cattle and sheep nothing but the fresh grass and hay that our 65 acres offer. Some of our pigs share a grass diet with the cows and sheep, but most spend their time in the woods rooting for nuts. We feed these latter pigs locally grown corn every day.

We give our animals no hormones, steroids, antibiotics, or anything else unnatural. We would only give antibiotics in an acute situation where antibiotics were necessary to save an animal's life. While we have encountered this before, we have never sold the meat from those animals to the public and don't intend to. We supplement our animals' diets with salt, kelp, and food grade diatomaceous earth.

Top of the World Farm, Justin, Liberty, and Wright Sanders, 8999 Ella Gallaher Road, Westpoint TN  38486. (866) 866-3287.
E-mail: topoftheworldfarm@direcway.com

West Wind Farms Organic Meats and Poultry is a 100-acre certified organic, biodynamic farm dedicated to healthy, artisan foods, environmental stewardship and humane animal husbandry. West Wind Farms offers a variety of products year round including certified organic pastured chicken and turkeys, grassfed beef and goat, certified organic pastured pork and certified organic pastured lamb. Meats and poultry are produced without artificial additives, synthetic hormones, subtherapeutic antiobiotics, GMOs, chlorine baths, or factory-confinement. Meats and poultry are sold to restaurants, caterers, and directly to the public by mail order and through established delivery locations within a 300 mild radius of the farm.

In addition to meats and poultry, find organic eggs from free-range hens, lard, honey, dairy products, vegetables, B.A.R.F. for pets, and more through West Wind Farms' website. The farm plans to offer CSA shares in 2003. A resident farm apprenticeship position is also currently available.

West Wind Farms, Kimberlie and Ralph Cole, 155 Shekinah Way, Deer Lodge TN37726. (423) 965-3334. E-mail: wwfarms@highland.net    Website: www.grassorganic.com