A SHARED COMMITMENT

A founding principle of Heartstone Farm is that we work with small family farmers like ourselves, who raise animals naturally, on pasture, without antibiotics and hormones - and who are committed to humane treatment.

We're building a community of farmers and consumers who share a common vision. We’re creating a distribution channel for meat that is better and healthier than what you can buy in the store. Both your family and family farms in our region benefit.

As a Heartstone Farm customer you're part of this community -supporting a network of family farms across New England and the Northeast. 

Together with our partner farms, we are committed to producing the best-tasting meat from animals raised naturally, without antibiotics or hormones, on pasture, and with humane care.

Supporting Local Farmers

A few years ago our customers started asking us if we could help them source other meat (like chicken and pork) raised naturally and locally.

At first, we started partnering with a few of our neighbors. Over the years, our network has grown. But we’ve never wavered in our standards. We won’t sell any meat to our customers unless it's good enough (and delicious enough) for our own dinner table.

Fair Prices for Farmers

For small family farms, marketing and selling their meat is challenging. Farmer’s markets are seasonal and time-consuming, and selling online requires technical skills and investment. This is why many farmers sell their cattle, pigs, and chickens to big meat processors rather than directly to consumers, receiving only a small fraction (14-40 cents of every food dollar) of what you pay at the grocery store.

The big meat processors (four companies control 85% of meat processing in the US) profit while farmers struggle. We believe that’s wrong.

We hold our farmer partners to a high set of standards and we commit to paying them a fair price for their farm products.

Your support matters

With your support, we're creating a community where both your family and family farms in our region benefit.

Together, we’re making a difference.

- Farmer Dan