Northern Raised

From a trusted Ontario farm to your freezer, there’s a simple process behind every Northern Raised order.

01 — Choose your cuts
Shop individual cuts, curated boxes or build your own. Every product page tells you which farm it comes from.

02 — Cut fresh to order
Your order is cut fresh, vacuum sealed and packed cold in an insulated box designed for the journey.

03 — Delivered to your door
Your order arrives cold and at a food-safe temperature on your region’s delivery day. And you don’t need to be home to receive it.

No complicated supply chain to navigate. Just trusted farms, carefully prepared meat and delivery straight to your door.

Meat you can trace, from farms you can name.

Why does your chicken say “air-chilled”?

Because how chicken is cooled after processing can make a difference.

Water-chilled chicken is cooled in cold water, which can allow the meat to absorb some of that water.

Air-chilled chicken is cooled using cold, circulating air instead. There’s no water bath, so there’s no added water absorbed during the chilling process.

At Northern Raised, our organic chicken from Ahrens Family Farm is air-chilled after processing, part of the straightforward, considered approach that has defined this six-generation Ontario farm for decades.

No unnecessary shortcuts. No mystery about where it came from.

Just certified organic, air-chilled chicken from a farm you can name.

Not all pork comes from the same kind of pig.

Heritage pork comes from traditional breeds that have been preserved over generations, rather than the highly standardised breeds commonly used in industrial pork production.

Why does the breed matter?

Heritage breeds can differ in marbling, fat distribution, texture and flavour, which can make for a very different eating experience.

At Northern Raised, our heritage pork comes from farms we know and can name, part of the same approach we take with every protein we offer.

Because understanding your meat starts with understanding how it was raised, where it came from and what makes it different.

Meat you can trace, from farms you can name.

Want to try Northern Raised without committing to a subscription?

You can.

Order exactly what you want, when you want it. Every product is available as a one-time order, with nothing recurring unless you choose it.

Pick a box. Stock the freezer. See what you think.

And depending on where you live, delivery may be free or discounted by region.

No recurring order. No long-term commitment. Just good meat, on your terms.

Some farming traditions are measured in years. The Ahrens family measures theirs in generations.

For six generations, the Ahrens family has farmed the same land near Peterborough, Ontario — more than 130 years of farming rooted in the same place.

They committed to organic chicken farming more than 30 years ago, long before “organic” became a selling point. They did it because they believed it was simply the right way to farm.

Today, every bird is free-range and certified organic, raised without antibiotics, synthetic hormones or chemical inputs.

The chickens are also air-chilled after processing, rather than water-chilled, for a clean, consistent product without absorbed moisture.

This is the farm behind the chicken you order from Northern Raised.

Ahrens Family Farm
📍 Peterborough, Ontario
🌱 Certified organic
🐔 Farming since 1890

One family. Six generations. One standard that hasn’t changed.

Our names are on every box. So are the names of the farms behind it.

Traceability isn’t a slogan at Northern Raised. It’s built into how we source our meat.

Every cut we sell comes from an Ontario family farm we know, visit, audit and name.

You can see the farm behind your meat — its name, location and story — before you order.

Because “Ontario-raised” is one thing.
Knowing exactly which farm raised it is another.

We put our names on the box because we stand behind what’s inside.

And we make sure the farmers’ names are there too.

Meat you can trace, from farms you can name.

You shouldn’t have to wonder where your meat came from.

At Northern Raised, every cut traces back to a named farm. Not just a region. Not a province. The actual farm that raised it.

And we don’t make you dig for the details.

The farm name, location and family story are right there on the product page, before you order.

Because traceability shouldn’t be something you have to request. It should be part of buying the meat.

Meat you can trace, from farms you can name.

Grass-fed vs. grass-finished: what’s the difference?

“Grass-fed” tells you an animal was fed grass at some point in its life. It doesn’t necessarily tell you what it was fed during the finishing stage.

Grass-finished means the animal stayed on a grass-based diet through finishing, rather than being switched to a grain-based finishing diet.

At Northern Raised, we’re specific: our beef is 100% grass-fed and grass-finished.

Because when you’re choosing meat based on how it was raised, the details matter.

Meat you can trace, from farms you can name.

We didn’t set out to sell meat.

We set out to fix how it’s raised.

That meant getting closer to the source.

We work with a small network of Canadian family farms we know by name, some with six generations on the same land.

We know where your meat comes from. You should too.

Every product can be traced back to the farm that raised it, with the farm’s name, location and story right there on the product page.

100% grass-fed.
100% grass-finished.
Certified organic chicken.
Heritage pork.
Bison, lamb, turkey and seafood, too.

No vague promises. Just specifics you can check.

Meat you can trace, from farms you can name.

Rename our lakes and we’ll rename your steaks 😤

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