Green Isle Ranch

Live animals and whole animal shares.

Pasture raised · Cattle · Sheep · Goats · Eggs

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Green Isle Ranch

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Know where your food comes from.

The Green Isle Ranch barn at golden hour, fence line and pasture running toward a stand of live oaks.
Goats and a donkey grazing at the tree line. Buy live animals

Goats, sheep
and cattle

Breeding stock, market animals and bottle babies — available to take home.

See what's available A black cow in low golden light with the herd behind her. Buy an animal share

Whole animal
shares

Buy a share of a live animal — pasture raised here, cut to your own sheet.

Browse the shop Learn about the farm

How they're
raised here

The land, the herd, the flock and the guardians that watch over them.

Meet Green Isle
Black cattle grazing at dusk beneath a long line of moss-draped live oaks, orange sky above.
The land

Oaks, moss,
and open pasture.

Everything we sell is pasture raised on this ground. Come out, walk the fence line, and see it for yourself before you buy a thing.

CattleBeef herd
SheepEwes & lambs
HensEggs
GuardiansDogs, donkey, goats
A black cow tagged 575 standing in low golden light, herd behind her.
A hair sheep looking back across green pasture with the rest of the flock grazing behind.
Goats climbing a brush pile beside a grazing donkey at the tree line.
A white hen and a brown hen on round hay bales with sun breaking through the trees.
Our animals
CattleSheepGoatsHens

A commercial beef herd, calved and grown out here. Sold as whole, half and quarter animal shares.

A small flock. Lambs arrive in batches, so lamb comes in short seasons rather than year round.

A working goat herd. Sold live as breeding and market animals, or as a whole animal share.

Laying hens out on the bales and under the trees. Eggs go out the door as fast as they come in.

Beef

Raised here.
Start to finish.

Beef is sold as a share of the live animal — whole, half or quarter. You choose the cut sheet and pay the processor directly; we walk you through it if it's your first time.

A black cow rimmed in gold backlight, dust hanging in the air around her.
Green Isle Ranch
Close portrait of a black cow, ear tag 44, evening sun outlining her head.
Cattle grazing among cattle egrets in front of a moss-hung oak hammock.

Whole animal,
or a piece of one.

A quarter fills a shelf. A whole fills a freezer and lasts a family most of a year. Both come back from the processor cut, wrapped and frozen — not a side of beef on your driveway.

Build your share

A dark portrait of a black cow against shadowed pasture.
Limited program

Wagyu.
By reservation.

A handful of animals a year, sold as half or whole animal shares only. Reserved well before they're ready, and cut to a sheet we go through with you line by line.

Sold as
Half & whole
How to get one
Reservation list
Cut sheet
Guided, one to one
Quantity
A few head a year

Call or email us and we'll walk you through what's available, how it's cut, and what it costs.

Ask about the list

A ewe standing with two lambs on hay in warm evening light.
Lamb

Short seasons.
Small flock.

Lamb comes in waves, not year round. Halves and wholes go first, and when a batch is gone we say so rather than pretend otherwise.

See lamb shares

Lambs, kids & eggs

However many
the season gave us.

Lambs and kids arrive in batches and eggs move with the daylight, so what's available changes through the year. Call and we'll tell you what's here today.

Two hens on round bales as low sun streams through the tree line behind them.
A child in a red sweatshirt bottle-feeding a young lamb in the grass.
Bottle lamb, evening chores
The crew

The ones who
work here.

The guardian dogs and the donkey are staff, not stock — they keep the flock calm and the coyotes honest. The goats are a different story: they're available live, or as a whole animal share.

See available goats

A Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dog standing in dark pasture at dusk.
A donkey grazing beside goats and sheep climbing a brush pile at the tree line.
Goats — available live
Live animals

Take one home
on the hoof.

We sell live goats, sheep and cattle — breeding stock, market animals and bottle babies. Come out, look them over, and decide in person.

Animal shares

Fill your freezer
differently.

You buy a share of a live animal before it goes to the processor. Pick an animal and a size and we'll show you roughly how much meat that works out to, how much freezer it eats, and what tends to come back in the boxes.

Beef
Lamb

Quarter beef

About a shelf of a chest freezer

Preorder
Freezer space illustration
About 4 cu ft Roughly a quarter of a 16 cu ft chest freezer
Hanging weight
150–190 lbtypical estimate
Take-home weight
95–130 lbafter cutting & trim
Deposit
Set at reservationprocessing billed by the processor
Pickup
2–3 weeks after harvestwe call you
Cuts you may receive

How buying an animal share works You are purchasing an ownership share in a live animal from Green Isle Ranch — not individual cuts or packaged meat. Depending on availability, you may reserve a quarter, half, or whole animal. Ownership of your share is transferred and documented before slaughter. Green Isle Ranch can arrange transportation of the live animal to a custom-exempt processor on behalf of the owners. You will submit your cutting instructions and pay the processor directly for slaughter, aging, cutting, wrapping, and any additional processing requested. Processing costs are separate from the price of your animal share. When processing is complete, you may pick up your order directly from the processor. Green Isle Ranch may also coordinate pickup and transportation of your finished order as an optional service, subject to the processor's policies. Any applicable transportation charge will be disclosed separately. All packages will be marked “Not for Sale.” The finished meat is for the owner's personal household use and may not be resold.

The cuts

Where it comes from
on the animal.

Tap a section. Useful when you're filling out a cut sheet for the first time.

Select a section

Chuck

The shoulder. Hard-working muscle, so it goes to roasts, stew and a good share of your ground beef.

From our ranch to your table

Five stops.
No mystery.

A black calf standing alone in green pasture, backlit oaks behind.
Pasture

Born and grown here

Calves stay with the herd on this place. No sale barn in the middle of the story.

A child bottle-feeding a lamb in the grass.
Daily care

Checked every day

Feeding, water, fences, and the ones that need extra help getting started.

Processing

Cut to your sheet

The animal goes to the processor as your property. Your choices on thickness, roast size, grind and packaging come back to you labelled and frozen.

Your freezer

Boxed and ready

Pickup at the ranch on a scheduled day. Bring coolers; we'll help you load.

Your table

You know the animal

That's the whole point of buying this way. You can point at the field it came from.

Start a share

Animal shares

Whole animals,
not packages.

We sell shares of live animals — whole, half and quarter — pasture raised here and processed to your own cut sheet. We don't sell individual steaks or packages.

Reserve by phone or email.
We don't take payment through the website. Send a request or call and we'll confirm what's available, go through the cut sheet, and arrange the deposit and pickup with you directly.

Our ranch

Rooted here.

Green Isle Ranch is a family operation. The work is early mornings, hay, water troughs and fence — and the reward is knowing exactly what's in the freezer and where it stood.

A calf in the pasture with sunlit Spanish moss hanging from the oaks behind.
The land
Pasture, oak hammock and fence line, worked by our family.
The herd
A commercial beef herd, calved out on the place.
The flock
Sheep and lambs, plus the guardians that keep them safe at night.
The shop
Whole animal shares and eggs sold direct, so the people eating it can meet the people raising it.
Wide Florida sunset over the tree line with animals grazing near a brush pile.