20 best butchers in Maryland

Prigel Family Farm
Glen Arm · Butcher, raw milk4.7 · 1,126 reviewsPrigel Family Farm is a family dairy farm in Glen Arm, Maryland, milking Jersey cows that are 100% grass fed and grass finished. The milk goes to their own creamery, Prigel Family Creamery, which turns it into whole milk, cheese, butter and ice cream, and raw milk is also bottled for pets. You can pre-order milk, dairy and 100% grass fed beef online and collect from the farm store in Glen Arm. Beef is also sold in quarter, half and whole custom shares, and the creamery makes cheese boards and grazing tables to order. Email the farm to ask about meat share availability.
Emily’s Produce
Cambridge · Butcher, farm shop4.8 · 722 reviewsEmily's Produce is a family farm market on Maryland's Eastern Shore near Cambridge. Fruit and vegetables go straight from the family's fields to the market, joined by homegrown cut flowers and hanging baskets, baked goods made fresh every day in Emily's kitchen, deli salads, jams and relishes, and local beer, wine and mead made with Maryland ingredients. There is grass fed beef too, raised locally without hormones or antibiotics and dry aged by the butcher. In season you can pick your own flowers, blueberries and blackberries, and the kitchen serves lunch to eat at the picnic tables or take away. The market is open daily.
Mary's Land Farm
Ellicott City · Butcher, eggs4.4 · 703 reviewsMary's Land Farm covers 160 acres of rolling Howard County countryside at Ellicott City, Maryland, where Tom Cunningham and his family have farmed since 2014. The cattle are entirely grass fed, pigs are raised in woodland and laying hens move across the pastures, part of a regenerative approach built on diverse pastures, water conservation and healthy soil. The farm store sells the farm's beef, pork, chicken and lamb with duck and chicken eggs and seasonal produce, plus honey, ferments, dairy and herbal goods from local farms and even a pet food range. There is a CSA to join and an online shop for ordering ahead. The store opens every day, with a late finish at 8pm on Tuesdays.
Flying Plow
Rising Sun · Butcher, eggs4.9 · 99 reviewsFlying Plow is a certified organic farm in Rising Sun, Maryland growing vegetables and raising pastured livestock, with draft horses still doing much of the vegetable fieldwork. Hens and broiler chickens live out on pasture, and compost and cover crops keep the soil in good heart without synthetic chemicals. You can sign up for their veggie or monthly meat subscriptions, or shop the online farm store for produce, pastured eggs, chicken, beef, pork and lamb alongside honey, dairy and groceries from neighbouring producers, collected from their pickup locations.
Happy Cow Creamery
Union Bridge · Butcher, raw milk4.7 · 104 reviewsHappy Cow Creamery at Grand View Acres Farm is a family owned and operated dairy and beef cattle farm on Dollyhyde Road in Union Bridge, Maryland. The cows are milked twice a day in the farm's grade A dairy, and raw cow milk, neither homogenized nor pasteurized, is packaged daily and sold in gallon containers under Maryland's raw pet milk rules. The farm also makes its own ice cream, served soft and hand dipped through summer and autumn with pints in the winter season. Angus and Hereford beef cattle are bred, raised and pastured on the farm and processed at a local USDA facility, with cuts, bundles and beef sticks available year round, alongside pork raised on the farm, chicken and duck eggs gathered daily, fresh baked sourdough from the farm's own starter, and local raw honey from a neighbouring apiary on the same road. The farm opens Thursday to Sunday and welcomes visiting families.
Zekiah Farms3
Waldorf · Butcher, eggs4.7 · 91 reviewsZekiah Farms3 is a family owned, woman led farm at Waldorf in Southern Maryland, run by Cindy Beuchert and her two sons. The animals are raised on pasture without added hormones, steroids or antibiotics, and hives on the farm produce raw honey from the mix of wildflowers and native trees around the fields. Meats, raw honey, produce and CSA farm shares can all be ordered through the online shop, and the farm appears at local farmers markets. It also hosts weddings, events and farm education visits, making it as much a place to spend time as to shop.
Hidden Waters Farm
Pikesville · Butcher, eggs4.8 · 74 reviewsHidden Waters Farm raises beef, chicken and pork in Pikesville, Maryland and sells it from the Market House, the farm shop on Old Court Road. Alongside the meats there is a seasonal selection of produce and other farm products, including Hidden Waters Honey from the apiary on the farm. The Market House is open year round, every day from 11am to 6pm, and the shelves change with the seasons. If you cannot get there in person, the online shop ships orders, with beef and pork shares, a kosher beef share and a subscribe and save option for regulars.
P.A. Bowen Farmstead
Brandywine · Butcher, raw milk4.8 · 66 reviewsP.A. Bowen Farmstead is a mixed species, pasture based farm in the village of Aquasco at Brandywine, Maryland, run by Geoffrey and Sally Fallon Morell. Jersey cows graze fresh pasture on daily rotation with chickens following behind them, and all the dairy and meat is raised without soy or corn in the feed. The wood panelled country store on the farm sells award winning raw milk farmstead cheese, raw pet milk (Maryland law does not allow raw milk for people), dry aged pastured beef, pork including nitrate free sausage and bacon, pastured chicken and eggs, and turkeys at Thanksgiving. It opens Thursday and Friday from 10am to 6pm and Saturday from 10am to 4pm, and the farm also sells at the Anne Arundel County Farmers Market on Saturday mornings.
Chesapeake Gold Farms
North East · Butcher, farm shop4.8 · 59 reviewsChesapeake Gold Farms is a family farm in North East, Maryland run by the Miller family, who milk a herd of Guernsey and Holstein cows and grow the crops that feed them. Bob and Diane Miller renamed the farm from Pleasant View Farms and broadened it into new crops and products, and their sons Wes, Matt and Ben now carry the work forward, with Wes managing the herd. Meat, dairy and other farm products are sold through the farm's online store, with delivery available. The farm opens on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and the Millers enjoy showing visitors around, so it is worth arranging a time to see the cows for yourself.
Springfield Farm
Sparks Glencoe · Butcher, eggs4.9 · 49 reviewsSpringfield Farm keeps its animals on pasture at Sparks Glencoe in Maryland, producing pasture raised eggs and poultry, grass fed beef and lamb, and pork raised in woodlot and pasture. The farm rounds out its own output with local dairy, seafood and pantry staples from other producers, plus pet treats under the Woofin' Weenies name. The farm store on Yeoho Road is open Friday to Sunday from 11am to 5pm, and the full range can also be ordered through the farm's online store, with gift cards and merchandise alongside the food.
Third Way Farm
Havre de Grace · Butcher, eggs4.9 · 27 reviewsThird Way Farm is Tommy and Michelle Shireman's regenerative farm in Havre de Grace, Maryland, growing no-till fruit and vegetables and raising animals on pasture. Permaculture thinking runs through the place, with composting, companion planting and rotational grazing keeping the soil at the heart of it all. The farm store opens on Tuesday and Friday afternoons with 100% grass fed beef, pasture raised eggs and chicken, woodland raised pork, local raw honey, cut flowers and handmade soap. There is an online shop too, along with a seasonal CSA with local pickup locations, and farm tours for anyone who wants a look around.
Purifying Pastures
Maryland · Butcher, raw milk5.0 · 21 reviewsPurifying Pastures is a grass based dairy farm at Knoxville, Maryland, farmed to regenerate the soil. The pastures get no synthetic fertilisers or pesticides, the grass is grown tall for deep roots, the ground is kept covered all year, and livestock move through small paddocks in rotation so the land cycles through grazing, rest and regrowth. The farm sells raw grass fed dairy, grass fed beef and lamb, pasture raised chicken and eggs, and grain free pastured pork, plus raw honey, sourdough bread and kombucha from like minded regenerative farms. Order through the online store for home delivery, call at the farm store, or visit on Saturday morning.
The Stafford Farms
Sykesville · Butcher, farm shop3.9 · 32 reviewsThe Stafford Farms has been family owned and operated in Sykesville, Maryland, since 1984, and runs a farm stand on Route 26 at Old Liberty Road. The stand sells local, fresh meats and dairy along with fruit and vegetables, the meat humanely handled and raised without growth hormones. Beyond the food there are baked goods, flowers and wreaths, and the family also build custom sheds and barns, sell poly outdoor furniture, deliver firewood and take on landscaping and snow ploughing. The stand opens daily, staying open later on Fridays and Saturdays.
Little Captain Creek Farm
Thurmont · Butcher, raw milk4.9 · 12 reviewsLittle Captain Creek Farm at Thurmont, Maryland is run by Stephen and Elizabeth Stoltzfus, fourth generation Amish farmers and the first in their family to farm regeneratively. They moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 2022 and have poured their energy into reviving a run down farm's soil ever since. The herd of 50 milking cows is 100% grass fed and rotationally grazed, moved to a fresh strip of grass two to four times a day, and most heifer calves stay on their mothers until four months old. Through a private buying club and a self serve farm store the family sells A2/A2 raw cow dairy, raw sheep dairy, 100% grass fed and finished beef and lamb, pastured pork raised on raw skim milk and non GMO grain, corn free and soy free chicken, eggs and turkeys, plus kombucha, kefir, ice cream and fresh sourdough. The farm store on Old Kiln Road is open dawn to dusk Monday to Friday, dawn to 5pm Saturday, and closed Sunday.
Hensing's Hilltop Acres
Woodbine · Butcher, raw milk5.0 · 10 reviewsHensing's Hilltop Acres is a 50 acre family farm in Woodbine, Maryland. The Hensing family moved to Maryland in July 2010 and started the farm that year. It began with one Jersey cow bought so the family would have raw milk of their own, and by Kelly Hensing's own account everything else followed from there. They own and operate the land, pasture their cows, pigs, chickens and ducks on it, and sell what they raise direct: by online order, at their farmers markets, or by pickup at the farm. Their beef calves stay on their mothers for four to six months, then eat only grass and hay, and are finished on an alfalfa mix with never any grain. The dairy is a small herd of A2 Jersey cows, and the milk from them is sold in Maryland labelled as pet milk. The pigs are kept outside on the farm, offered a non GMO grain mix but happiest chewing the greens they find in their field, and are never confined in a barn the way commercial pigs are. The chickens and ducks run free and are never caged, watched over by four livestock guardian dogs, and fed a grain mix that contains no soy and no GMOs.
The Guernsey Depot
Worton · Butcher, raw milk4.6 · 8 reviewsThe Guernsey Depot is the farm store of Dogwood Lane Dairy, a family Guernsey dairy in Worton, Maryland, where the family has been milking cows since 1923. John Christian started with Guernsey cows and the herd today descends from those originals. The small, 100 percent registered Guernsey herd was certified fully A2A2 in late 2022, and the cows are pasture kept around the clock with bedded sheds for comfort. All of their feed is grown on the farm, with hay, silage and a little home grown grain carrying them through winter when the grass goes dormant. Third generation farmers John and Kathy Myers and their sons direct market the golden Guernsey produce through the Depot, weekly home delivery across Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties, and farmers markets in Maryland and Washington DC. The range covers more than 15 varieties of cheese including raw aged cheese, golden A2A2 butter, chicken and duck eggs, pasture kept beef, milk and tallow soaps, and freeze dried treats for dogs. The store opens Fridays and Saturdays, and farm visits are by appointment only for biosecurity.
Ferguson Family Farm
Parkton · Butcher, eggs4.2 · 9 reviewsFerguson Family Farm is a family farm at Parkton in Baltimore County, Maryland, half an hour from Baltimore and surrounded by the Prettyboy watershed. The family raises free range chickens, turkeys and ducks, Certified Berkshire hogs and 100% grass fed and finished beef, moving the animals to fresh pasture daily in a rotational system inspired by Joel Salatin, with no hormones, antibiotics or appetite stimulants. Eggs, poultry, Berkshire pork, beef and raw wildflower honey are sold direct, from single cuts up to whole and half freezer pigs and quarter shares of beef. Orders are placed by phone or text to Lynne Ferguson, and the family prides itself on personal service.
Hidden Creek Pastures
Smithsburg · Butcher, eggs4.8 · 6 reviewsHidden Creek Pastures is a family farm in Smithsburg, Maryland, raising pasture raised meat and eggs with regenerative farming practices that restore the land, build rich soil and create a thriving ecosystem. The farm believes good food starts with healthy land, and raises each animal as the animal it is, mimicking patterns in nature rather than raising cattle as pigs or pigs as cattle. The meats are free from GMOs and preservatives, with no shortcuts and no compromises. The farm sells grass fed beef and lamb, pastured pork, chicken, turkey, duck and eggs, along with a dairy for pets range. Orders can be placed online for home delivery or collection at a pickup location, and there is a self serve farm store on the farm at 22046 Old Forge Road, with freezers stocked with regenerative, pastured meat and eggs ethically raised on the farm.
Prosperity Acres
Sunderland · Butcher, raw milk4.0 · 6 reviewsProsperity Acres is a family farm in Sunderland, in Southern Maryland, run by Mary and Jacob Bowen. The farm raises beef cattle that roam freely on pasture, feasting on nutrient rich grass, alongside goats and lambs for meat. Everything is sold direct, through the farm's online store, deliveries and local farmers markets, where Mary's booth is a fixture. The goats are milked twice daily, every 12 hours, and the family drinks the milk themselves for its freshness. Under Maryland law the raw goat milk is sold and labeled strictly as pet milk, not for human consumption, and it goes out fresh for dogs, cats and working animals. The farm also runs a farm animal science camp where children aged 6 to 12 get hands on with the animals. Faith and stewardship sit at the centre of how the Bowens describe their farming.
Captain Family Farms
Westminster · Butcher, eggs5.0 · 3 reviewsCaptain Family Farms is a family farm in Westminster, Maryland, where the family lives and works full time. The farm is run on regenerative lines, building topsoil, developing resilient pastures and creating habitat for native species, and it avoids herbicides and other harmful chemicals. The hope is that when people eat the food they can taste that it was grown with care, for a community that gathers around a table. The farm sells its food directly to the community, with collection from the farm on Saturday mornings. Get in touch through the website to order or to find out what is available.

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