Coleman Family Farms
Carpinteria and Ojai, California, USA
Quality assessment
Caveats
RONAN 'WITH THE HELP OF' LIST calls it 'Coleman Family Farm' (singular); canonical name 'Coleman Family Farms.' NAME-COLLISION TRAP CAUGHT AND REJECTED: 'Coleman Agriculture' (colemanag.com) is a SEVENTH-GENERATION family farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley -- a completely different company; do not alias or conflate. The real Coleman Family Farms: founded 1963 by Bill Coleman, now run by 2nd-generation Romeo Coleman, 18 acres across two sites in Ojai and Carpinteria, CA. No first-party farm website found -- verification_status left 'claimed' per Munak-Ranch-style convention. CERTIFICATION CAVEAT: the farm's OWN quoted words (Gjelina Group vendor-story interview) explicitly state they are chemical-free but NOT CERTIFIED organic and deliberately chose not to pursue certification because they sell direct at farmers markets -- do not credit an organic certification claim for this farm under any circumstance.
Products
vegetablesspecialty produce
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Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- gjournals.gjelinagroup.com ↗
farmer's own quoted words: chemical-free, explicitly NOT certified organic, direct-to-market model
- ojaivalleyinn.com ↗
independent hotel farmer-connections profile: 18 acres, Ojai + Carpinteria, founded 1963 by Bill Coleman
- socalrestaurantshow.com ↗
independent radio-show profile naming 2nd-generation farmer Romeo Coleman