28 best butchers in Alabama | Organised

Working cows dairy
Slocomb · Butcher, raw milk4.8 · 294 reviewsWorking Cows Dairy is a family run dairy in Slocomb, Alabama, founded by Jan and Rinske de Jong, making USDA certified organic milk, butter and cheese from grass fed cows. The cheeses are handmade at the farm and several have won awards, among them Griene Tsiis, Slocomb Tomato-Garlic and their Farmstead Cheese. Cheese, organic grass fed butter and sampler packs can be ordered from the online shop, and a store locator on the website shows where the products are stocked nearby. A wider range is sold in person, and visitors are welcome to come and taste the cheese at the source.
Bare Bottom Farms
Arab · Butcher, raw milk5.0 · 44 reviewsBare Bottom Farms is a veteran owned, family operated farm in Arab, Alabama, run by a family of eight with faith at the centre of everything they do. The farm produces raw pet milk, farm fresh eggs, local honey and beef, pork and chicken, along with sourdough bread, freeze dried treats, vanilla extract and locally roasted coffee. Members come first, with weekly milk and products offered to everyone else from whatever is left over. The farm store at County Road 1838 opens to the public on Saturdays, and it is worth checking the schedule on their website before you set out, or ordering ahead online.
Earnest Roots Farm
Ashville · Butcher, eggs5.0 · 38 reviewsEarnest Roots Farm is run by the Morrison family in Ashville, Alabama, raising animals on pasture with regenerative practices. The beef and lamb are 100% grass fed and grass finished, the chickens and pigs are pasture raised and rotated to fresh ground, and nothing gets antibiotics, steroids or GMO feed. You can order online for collection at local pickup points, or free local home delivery on larger orders within their delivery area. The farm store opens on Friday mornings, and the range covers beef, lamb, chicken, pork, pastured eggs and honey from the farm's hives.
My Dad & Me Family Farm
Piedmont · Butcher, raw milk4.8 · 37 reviewsMy Dad & Me Family Farm is a family run farm in Piedmont, Alabama, producing 100% grass fed raw milk and beef. The shop works on a membership basis, and milk comes in returnable glass jars that members rotate at each pick up, alongside cream, yogurt, kefir, butter and cheese from the dairy. Beyond the dairy counter there is grass fed beef from jerky to chuck roasts and marrow bones, plus pastured eggs and broilers, pork, honey, beeswax candles and a pantry of freshly milled flours, nuts and other organic goods. Orders go through the online shop, with co-op collection points serving Georgia and Birmingham as well as the farm itself.
JBW Farm Fresh
Dothan · Butcher, eggs4.5 · 40 reviewsJBW Farm Fresh is the farm store of Bert and Lisa Woodham, whose family farm sits on US Highway 84 west of Dothan, Alabama. They raise cattle, sheep and goats that are grass fed and grass finished, along with pasture raised pork. Their own words are plain about it: the animals are grain free and hormone free from conception to consumption, and are never given growth hormones or grains. The farm is run on regenerative principles, using multi species rotation, cover crops and holistic grazing to build the soil. The store on Pilgrim Road sells the meat by the cut and by the half or whole animal, alongside chicken, chicken eggs, quail and quail eggs. Bee hives went in on the farm and the raw honey is extracted, strained and poured straight into the bottle. They also make tallow and lard soaps, lotions and balms from their own animals. Farm tours run through the year, so you can walk the pastures and meet the herd.
Follow Me Land & Livestock
Fort Mitchell · Butcher, eggs5.0 · 24 reviewsFollow Me Land and Livestock is a farm at Fort Mitchell, Alabama, run by Kevin and Laura, who farm regeneratively with their faith at the centre of the work. Sheep, goats and poultry are moved frequently onto fresh grass, which restores the soil and lets the animals behave naturally, and the sheep and goats eat a forage diet with no grain, antibiotics, wormers or vaccinations. Laying hens follow the ruminants around the pasture, foraging with non GMO feed and kelp alongside, and pasture raised broilers are on offer too. Meat and eggs are sold through the farm's online store, with pickup arranged by appointment.
The Meandering Meadows Farm
Blountsville · Butcher, raw milk5.0 · 22 reviewsThe Meandering Meadows is a family owned farm in Blountsville, Alabama, founded in 2020 by Ryan and Nadia Tyson, first generation farmers. They keep livestock using sustainable and holistic practices, and they are best known for their Mocktails and Muckboots farm tour, where visitors meet the animals while sipping seasonal mocktails and sampling farm to table food, from honey out of the hive to goat cheese. Farm to table products and farm merchandise are sold through their website, where tours can also be booked. Raw milk, honey and pasture raised beef feature among the farm's offerings, and visits are arranged directly with the farm.
Stillwater Farm
Pell City · Butcher, raw milk4.4 · 20 reviewsStillwater Farm keeps pasture raised laying hens in Pell City, Alabama. The birds roam freely on grass rather than being shut in, and their feed is free from GMOs, which the farm credits for eggs rich in flavour and nutrients. You order through the farm's online Square shop and collect at the farm. Production has been growing, and the farm hopes to add other pasture raised goods over time, so it is worth checking back to see what else is on offer.
Purely Pastured Farm
Foley · Butcher, eggs4.9 · 14 reviewsPurely Pastured Farm is a family farm in Baldwin County, Alabama, raising meat and eggs entirely on pasture. The beef is 100% grass fed and finished, the pork, chicken and beef are rotationally grazed to feed the soil, and everything is raised without antibiotics, GMOs or mRNA vaccines, with humane handling as a founding rule of the farm. Ordering happens online. Choose your products, then pick up at the farm in Baldwin County, use a local pickup point, or have it delivered to your door within a 22 mile radius. The farm serves customers across South Alabama and Northwest Florida, including Mobile, Pensacola, Fairhope and Gulf Shores.
Alleluia Acres
Alabaster · Butcher, raw milk5.0 · 12 reviewsAlleluia Acres is a heritage breed farm at Alabaster, Alabama run by Cam and Ahna Frye. They raise pastured meat and eggs, rotating the animals around the farm, with hogs rooting in the earth and chickens ranging across the property, and their cured meats are made with Redmond salt rather than synthetic nitrates. Order online and collect at the farm on Monday or Saturday afternoons, or browse the self serve mini market on the same days. The farm also sells raw pet milk products, pork shares by the half or whole hog, soaps and skincare, and runs tours, classes and field trips.
Bartl Homestead
Elberta · Butcher, raw milk4.9 · 12 reviewsBartl Homestead is a family run farm in Elberta, Alabama, raising its animals on pasture and aiming, in their own words, to provide quality products through vintage traditions. The same spirit runs through the farm blog, which shares recipes for whole wheat sourdough sandwich bread, beef bone broth and a proper homestead meatloaf. Their online shop sells beef, chicken, eggs and raw milk, and there is a glass jar waitlist you can join for the milk. The farm keeps collection hours seven days a week, and a calendar on the site lists what is coming up.
The Little Orchard Farm
Somerville · Butcher, farm shop5.0 · 9 reviewsThe Little Orchard Farm is a working farm on Peck Hollow Road in Somerville, Alabama, around half an hour from Huntsville, with orchard rows, animals and open fields. The farm is preparing an adults only glamping farmstay opening in spring 2027, with private bell tent sites, fire pits and dark sky stargazing set within the working farm. Guided tours introduce the goats, mini Scottish Highland cows, chickens and pot belly pigs, and the on site farm store stocks handmade woodworks, scented candles and other farm made items as the seasons allow. Join the waitlist on the website to hear when booking opens.
Red Hill Farms
Alabama · Butcher, farm shop4.8 · 9 reviewsRed Hill Farms is a family farm at Cropwell, Alabama, founded by James Martin Bryant and now run by Vaughan and Christa Bryant. They raise grass fed beef from South Poll cattle, a breed chosen to suit the Alabama climate, and pastured pork from heritage hogs that forage freely and are never confined to a concrete slab. The pigs eat a plant based diet with no growth promoting chemicals or hormones and no antibiotics, and beef is sold by the whole animal at a price based on live weight plus processing. Call the farm to talk through what is available, or visit on a weekday evening or a Saturday.
Pecan Point
Hurtsboro · Butcher, eggs4.6 · 9 reviewsPecan Point is a family owned and operated farm in east central Alabama run by George Rogers, producing pecans, free range chicken eggs and grass fed beef, with bass and bream fishing on a 30 acre managed lake. In the farm's small commercial kitchen the family makes granolas, rolling the oats fresh just before cooking and sweetening them with honey from their own bees or with maple syrup. Pecans are processed on the farm to order and sold in shell, cracked or farm shelled, in varieties including Elliots, Stuarts and Cape Fears. You can find the family at farmers' markets in Columbus on Saturdays and Auburn on Thursdays, or phone ahead to arrange a visit to the farm.
Yellow Rose Ranch
Wadley · Butcher, fruit & veg5.0 · 5 reviewsYellow Rose Ranch is a family farm at Wadley, Alabama, founded by Robert Stockwell and Ashley Wheaton and worked by a family of five. They call it a regenerative farm: the chickens are moved daily onto fresh ground, the grazing is rotational, and the feed is non GMO. Their beef is 100 percent grass fed and grass finished, with the cattle roaming the pastures through the warmer months and fed hay or pasture silage in the cold ones. Pork, chicken, turkey, lamb and rabbit are all pasture raised, and the farm states that no hormones, steroids or antibiotics are used on any of them. Beef, pork, poultry, lamb and rabbit can be ordered through the ranch's own online shop, and the family sells face to face as well, taking a Yellow Rose Ranch stall out to local markets with meat, vegetables and preserves alongside it. Their about page announced a farm store on the land, opening in the fall of 2024, so that meat could be bought straight from the source. Customers writing on the ranch's own testimonial page mention a Christmas turkey, the chicken and the pork, and buying young pigs to raise themselves, and several of them praise how openly Ashley and Rob explain the way the animals are kept.
Hog On The Range
Florence · Butcher, farm shop4.8 · 5 reviewsHog On The Range raises free range pigs on pasture at Florence, Alabama, choosing humane, natural methods over industrial scale farming. The pigs roam the fields rather than living indoors, which the farm sees as better for the animals, the land and the food alike. The pork is sold direct, from sausages to bacon, all made without harmful additives. Opening runs on weekdays from 9am to 5pm, with shorter hours across the weekend, and it is worth phoning ahead before travelling.
Stebbins Family Farm
Athens · Butcher, raw milk4.5 · 4 reviewsStebbins Family Farm is a small farm on Flanagan Road in Athens, Alabama, run by Jastin and Kristen Stebbins with their four children. The family moved to North Alabama from Washington in August 2021 and spent close to three years learning and growing before settling on dairy as the direction they wanted. Jersey cows are the heart of it now, and alongside them the family keeps chickens, ducks, guard geese and barn cats. They garden as best they can and say they are grateful for friends who are better at growing produce than they are. The shop sells raw milk, either as a one off or as a monthly subscription, along with farm fresh eggs, duck eggs, chicken, and home baking that runs to white bread, buttermilk biscuits, cinnamon rolls and seven kinds of bagel. It also carries a Founders Circle membership and the farm's own logo hats and T shirts. The family are building a farm store to hold all their products in one place. Both Jastin and Kristen come from a 4-H and small farm background, and they teach through farm tours and field trips so visitors can see what small farm life is really like. Hours vary, so contact the farm to arrange a visit.
Twice Blessed Farm
Opp · Butcher, raw milk3.0 · 4 reviewsTwice Blessed Farm is a small family farm at Opp in Alabama, run by a couple who built it around their day jobs, milking before work and preserving food in the evenings. What began as a way to feed their own family has grown into a micro dairy and micro bakery supplying local families who want real food. The farm sells raw milk, sourdough and fresh eggs. You order through the online store and collect at the farm, with pickup daily between 3pm and 5pm, and delivery is offered as well.
Lake Majestik Farms
Flat Rock · Butcher, farm shopLake Majestik Farms is a family run cattle farm in Flat Rock, in northeastern Alabama, raising Brangus and Ultrablack cattle. Every calf is born on the farm and known to the family, the herd stays on local forages for life, and Nic handpicks the breeding stock using DNA verified genetics to build tenderness and marbling into the beef. The beef is sold directly at the farm, and you can taste it served daily at Flat Rock Grocery in Flat Rock and at The Blue Grill in Higdon, Alabama. The family also work as seedstock producers, selling quality Brangus and Ultrablack breeding cattle alongside the meat.
Foundry Farms
Hazel Green · Butcher, raw milkFoundry Farms is run by two families in Hazel Green, in northern Alabama. The Reids, Joe and Megan, keep mini Jersey cattle, Cornish cross chickens, pigs and a large garden on their small homestead, and alongside the farming Joe pastors their church while Megan homeschools their four daughters. The Kings, Chance and Stephanie, met at Auburn and held on to the idea of a small farm through Chance's years in the Army. They now farm the other half of Foundry Farms, and the two families run it together under one name. The birds are raised entirely outdoors on pasture and moved regularly onto fresh ground, and the farm says plainly that it never uses antibiotics or growth promoters, because healthy birds come from a clean, low stress, open air life. Chickens are processed on site in small batches using a kill cone so the bird bleeds out fully, rather than by industrial stunning. Their own shop sells whole pasture raised chickens and chicken cuts, chicken bone broth, A2 raw milk, cream and skim milk from the Jerseys, seasonal fruit and microgreens, and soap made in their own homes.
Center Square Farm
Somerville · Butcher, raw honeyCenter Square Farm is a family-owned farm at Somerville, Alabama, raising grass-finished beef, forest-raised pork and pastured poultry. The animals live outdoors on pasture or in the woods, and the pigs and chickens get a supplemental feed that is non-GMO and soya free, with the pig feed corn free as well. Meat is sold through the farm's online shop, where you choose your cuts and then a pickup location and date, with delivery also available. A newsletter keeps regulars up to date with recipes, events and stories from the farm.
Nature Nine Farms
Foley · Butcher, eggsNature Nine Farms is Stewart Perkins' farm in Foley, in south Baldwin County, Alabama. He came to farming through a small honey and soap business, then hands on work in cheese making and livestock, before setting up the farm. The animals live on pasture without chemical fertilisers, pesticides, antibiotics or artificial hormones, with chickens moved to fresh grass every day and cows grazing diverse pastures. The farm sells free range chickens fed non GMO grain, eggs with rich yolks and forest raised bacon. Orders are placed through the online shop, with delivery or collection arranged with the farm.
Po Man Farms
Alabama · Butcher, eggsPo Man Farms is a small family farm at Atmore in Alabama, close to the Florida border, run by Daryl Reed. The animals live on pasture and are raised without antibiotics, hormones or steroids, with a herd of Santa Gertrudis cattle that are either bred on the farm or bought in from local farmers. The farm sells grass fed and pastured beef by the quarter, half or whole animal, with the option of finishing on non-GMO grain grown on the farm, plus pork, chicken, eggs and raw milk sold for pet consumption only. You can find them at the Palafox Farmers Market in Pensacola, Florida on Saturday mornings, and special orders are welcome by phone.
Happy Meadow Farm
Alabama · Butcher, raw milkHappy Meadow Farm is a family run farm at Pisgah in the Alabama countryside, raising poultry and cattle on grass. The birds live outdoors on pasture and the cattle are grass fed, with rotational grazing keeping the fields productive year after year. The farm sells pasture raised chicken and eggs along with grass fed beef, direct to customers. There are no fixed opening hours, so ring or email the farmer to check what is in stock and arrange a time to collect.
Heritage Hills Farmstead
Alabama · Butcher, farm shopHeritage Hills Farmstead is a family farm in Cullman, Alabama that farms regeneratively and keeps things strict about feed. The cattle graze grass and hay harvested from the farm's own pastures with no chemicals or sprays, the chickens are pasture raised on feed free from soy, corn and grain, and the heritage pigs forage in the woods all year round. Nothing on the farm gets vaccines, seed oils or chemical treatments. They sell grass grazed beef, pastured chicken, forest fed heritage pork and both pastured and heritage turkeys through their online meat shop, with freezer boxes and customised mixed meat boxes if you want to stock up, and you can reserve beef ahead of the next batch.