The best butchers in Maryland
4.7 from 3,108 reviews across 16 farms
Organised lists 16 farms in Maryland, including 16 butchers, 16 farm shops and 6 honey farms. 16 deliver to your door.
4.7 from 3,108 reviews across 16 farms
Organised lists 16 farms in Maryland, including 16 butchers, 16 farm shops and 6 honey farms. 16 deliver to your door.



Prigel Family FarmRaw milk farm in Glen Arm4.7 (1105 reviews)Prigel 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 ProduceButcher in Cambridge4.8 (707 reviews)Emily'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 FarmFarm shop in Ellicott City4.4 (685 reviews)Mary'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 PlowFarm shop in Rising Sun4.9 (97 reviews)Flying 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 CreameryRaw milk farm in Union Bridge4.7 (94 reviews)Happy Cow Creamery at Grandview Acres Farm is a family owned dairy and beef cattle farm on Dollyhyde Road in Union Bridge, Maryland. The dairy cows are milked twice a day in the farm's Grade A dairy, the Angus and Hereford beef cattle are bred, pasture raised and processed at a local USDA facility, and the hens and ducks are raised on the farm.
It is as much a meeting place as a shop, serving soft serve and hand dipped ice cream in season, with raw pet cow milk bottled daily, beef and pork cuts, beef sticks in four flavours, fresh chicken and duck eggs, sourdough baked from the farm's own starter, and local raw honey from the Hyde Apiary on the same road.
Zekiah Farms3Farm shop in Waldorf4.6 (85 reviews)Zekiah 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.
P.A. Bowen FarmsteadFarm shop in Brandywine4.8 (62 reviews)P.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.
Springfield FarmFarm shop in Sparks Glencoe4.9 (49 reviews)Springfield 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 FarmFarm shop in Havre de Grace4.9 (27 reviews)Third 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 PasturesRaw milk farm5 (19 reviews)Purifying 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 Guernsey DepotRaw milk farm in Chestertown4.6 (8 reviews)The Guernsey Depot in Chestertown, Maryland is the farm store side of Dogwood Lane Dairy, a family Guernsey dairy on Maryland's Eastern Shore run by third generation farmers John and Kathy Myers and their sons. The family have built the store around their own dairy alongside food from other local producers.
The shop sells dairy and eggs, pastured chicken, pork and beef, local produce, baked goods, honey and even pet treats. It opens on Fridays and Saturdays, and the dairy also runs home delivery across Kent, Talbot, lower Cecil, Prince George's and Queen Anne's counties and into NW DC through its online store.
Ferguson Family FarmButcher in Parkton3.9 (10 reviews)Ferguson 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.
Captain Family FarmsFarm shop in Westminster5 (3 reviews)Captain 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.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
