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Clean beef, to the people who want it.
We started Great Lakes Amish Meats for one reason: American families want beef they can trust, Amish families already raise it, and almost nobody can get it without a drive to a shed at the end of a gravel road.
Who runs it
A Michigan cattleman who works with the Amish families directly, and a team that has helped family farms sell beef by the share for years. Operations and the farms on one side, the website and the customers on the other.
What we promise
Every farm signs our standard. Every animal goes to a USDA-inspected plant. Every share is a fixed weight at a fixed price. The farms are paid a fair, published price on every animal.
Where we are going
Michigan and Ohio first. Then the rest of the Great Lakes and the Northeast, farm by farm, as more Amish communities join.
Photo credits
The photographs on this site are of Amish country in Michigan, Ohio and neighboring states, used under their published licenses. Photos of our own farms will replace them as the families allow.
- Hay field and farm buildings at sunset in Amish country, Clare County, Michigan: amish hayfield by Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Amish horse and buggy on a winter road in Clare County, Michigan: off to church by Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Amish horse and buggy on a country road: Horse buggy Amish country by Carol M Highsmith, public domain (CC0).
- Amish buggy parked beside a red barn: Amish buggy parked along country by Carol M Highsmith, public domain (CC0).
- Amish farmland with white farm buildings: Amish County by Daquella manera, public domain (CC0).
- Two red barns on an Amish farm: Red barns ion tidy Amish by Carol M Highsmith, public domain (CC0).
- Red barn with a green roof on an Amish farm: Old Amish farm Iowa by Carol M Highsmith, public domain (CC0).
- White Amish barn and silo: Mascot Barn by Gerry Dincher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Straw hats hanging on an Amish farmhouse wall: Men's straw hats, hanging farmhouse by Carol M Highsmith, public domain (CC0).
- Amish farmhouse and lane: Amish farmhouse by IN 30 MINUTES Guides, CC BY 2.0.
- Rolling farms in Ohio Amish country: Ohio's Amish Country by cletch, CC BY 2.0.
- Amish buggy on a road in Ohio Amish country: Ohio's Amish Country by cletch, CC BY 2.0.
- Red barn under a wide sky: pennsylvania barn by Anthony Citrano, CC BY 2.0.
Be first when the first harvest opens.
Tell us where you are and what size you want. We will email you the harvest date before it goes public.
No deposit today. One email when the harvest date is set, then the order link. Nothing else.