About Us
Meet the Farmers - Hello and Welcome!
We are Brian and Keira Farmer, owners of Yankee Farmer's Market. Once you get past the irony of our name and our chosen profession, you will find what Yankee Farmer’s Market has to offer.
Yankee Farmer's Market was developed to provide consumers with healthy, delicious, non-tampered-with meat; meat you can sink your teeth into without having to worry about the detrimental effects of an unnatural, polluted, inhumane product.
Our hope in developing Yankee Farmer's Market is to put agriculture back into the hands of the small, local farmer. We are not interested in mass producing our animals, biologically engineering our animals, or leaving them in unhealthy, inhumane environments as some of the larger farms do.
Many of our customers value our respect for our animals and the quality of our products and have chosen to add Yankee Farmer's Market to their daily regimen.
In 1998 Yankee Farmer's Market was formed to provide consumers with local, naturally raised meats. In September of that year, at the ripe age of 24, we sold our car to buy our first five buffalo. Our parents and friends thought we were crazy, but we wanted to provide delicious buffalo meat to whoever wanted it.
As of 2023, our stock has grown to include Buffalo, Scottish Highlanders & Pastured Pigs. We now operate three farm locations, sell to hundreds of retailers, ship meat nationwide, operate our retail location in Warner, operate a Buffalo Concession Business, and help others get into farming.
For over twenty years, we have been involved in educating, producing, and distributing buffalo meat.
Yankee Farmer's Market is located in beautiful Warner, New Hampshire. We regained old pastureland and offer our customers the opportunity to visit our farm and purchase our buffalo meat and other naturally raised local products. We average about 50 buffalo, some of which are kept in Warner and Hillsborough NH.
In addition to selling Buffalo meat products to families, markets, and restaurants all across the country, we also sell live buffalo to farms and support entrepreneurs on their own farms. We also offer a buy-back program for those interested in farming buffalo. For more information, please contact us at Yankee Farmer's Market.
Learn about our Innovative Heavy Use Area on the farm. Our project aims to demonstrate effective heavy-use areas for bison that can be replicated in this growing industry throughout New Hampshire and the Northeast.
Looking for help on a farm project, fencing installation, or heavy-use area? Contact us today for assistance with Project Management, Consulting, and Installations.
We also sell wholesale to co-ops, restaurants and stores. See our product locator page to find our products around NH and New England.
As you may have read in our Why Buffalo? section, all of our buffalo are naturally fed and raised free-range. Our wide variety of buffalo meat products - from burgers and steaks to jerky and sausages - DO NOT contain growth hormones, stimulants, or antibiotics. And we guarantee that all of our products will arrive on your doorstep when shipped anywhere in North America.
To read more about American Buffalo and why it is right for your taste buds and your diet, visit our Why Buffalo? section.
Our Mission
What We Believe
We believe growing foods and raising animals in their most natural environment benefits the people of the world and the land we live on.
Our Guarantees
- We produce all-natural products with no hormones or antibiotics.
- You will receive personalized, quality customer service.
- Yankee Farmer's Market is devoted to a holistic approach to land and animal stewardship.
- Provide the highest quality products we possibly can.
- Quality customer experiences.
- Supporting the Local Food Movement.
- Land and animal stewardship and sustainability.
- Providing education about food and farming.
- Dignity, honor, receptivity, humility, and respect.
- Inspire healthy and abundant living.
- Dream our passions, live our dreams.
- Create joy and fulfillment through serving and making a positive difference in the world.
- Responsibility in the industry and the world.
The Farmer family has is dedicated to land and animal stewardship. We have been in the buffalo industry for 28 years.
This is our commitment.
Our farm is clean, efficient, friendly, respectful, joyful and fun. We take pride in our farm and enjoy building relationships and serving every visitor.
This is our commitment.
Our pastures give the animals plenty of room to roam. They eat a natural diet of mixed grasses and fresh water from that land. They are rotated to different pastures and lands to assure proper regeneration of the soil.
This is our commitment.
Our animals are free to roam, graze, socialize, live and breathe as any herd in nature intended. They are athletes that live peaceful lives, breed naturally, grow to maturity and are humanely handled from birth to harvest. The animals travel a short distance to an abattoir and the loading area is designed specifically to keep the animals at ease.
This is our commitment.
We believe in and strive for the highest standards of meat being hormone, antibiotic, pesticide, GMO and chemical free. They are USDA inspected and professionally cut and packaged to assure utmost freshness. Every single part of the animal is used, leaving no waste and respecting every animal.
This is our commitment.
Our Warner, NH based retail farm store provides all cuts of our meat as well as many other meats and products from local farms and businesses in the NH and New England area. We actively encourage and promote these products to support our local community.
This is our commitment.
We also buy and sell from other sources we consider local based on quality, availability and season. A local movement can reach far and wide complimenting those sharing responsible food and farming practices. This includes embracing accountability, quality, care and transparency for all farm visitors.
This is our commitment.
We constantly share our message online, at the farm, at local events and face-to-face to assist in educating the public around food systems and farming.
This is our commitment.
We built the Innovative Heavy Use Area using Best Management Practices (BMP) as a means of proper nutrient management to assure the utmost health of our animals, lands, farm and surrounding neighbors. The HUA is part of the overall animal grazing program utilized mainly during the 3 worst winter months in NH.
This is our commitment.
Members of the National Bison Association and active participants in the Bison 1 Million campaign, we are proud to be participating in the active restoration of the bison population in North America, with a goal of 1 million strong by 2027.
This is our commitment.
Meet the Staff
Meet the members of the YFM team!
OUR PARTNERS
We are proud members of each of the following organizations:
New Hampshire Made
Gift baskets, gourmet foods, and other items made in the Granite State.
National Bison Association
The mission of the NBA is to bring together stakeholders to celebrate the heritage of American bison, to educate, and to create a sustainable future for our industry.
Eastern Bison Association
Dedicated to addressing the needs of the eastern bison producer through education, research, and the marketing of bison and bison products.
New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation
Advocating for agriculture for 100 years!
LocalHarvest
LocalHarvest connects people looking for good food with the farmers who produce it.