https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/10/9-great-bay-area-butcher-shops/

From Santa Cruz to Los Altos to Berkeley, these butcher shops go beyond the typical meat counter to offer custom cuts, cooking suggestions and even animal shares, which allow you to purchase a part of a cow or pig and enjoy all of the cuts at an economical price while supporting regional farmers.

A leader in nose-to-tail butchery, this famed shop inside Oakland’s Rockridge Market Hall  is stocked with local grass-fed, pasture-raised and organic meats. Purchase a whole, half or quarter animal — cow, pig, goat or lamb — and have it cut to your specifications as steaks, roasts, ground meat and even bones in vacuum-sealed packages. Nothing goes to waste. Tallow production makes things like soap, fertilizers and biofuels.