>Some ranches exist in California, but they sell their
>meat in quarters. I don't have the space, nor carving
>and cooking skills, for handling that.

normally, you would have the meat delivered to your local butcher and he
would do the carving.  that still doesn't help with the problem of space,
but maybe you could get together with someone else to buy the meat, then
you won't have to pay for or store so much at a time.