Marin Sun Farms
Petaluma / Point Reyes Station, California, USA
marinsunfarms.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
Caveats
ENTITY_KIND CALL: classified as 'brand-program' (same pattern as the existing Niman Ranch row) rather than 'producer' -- Marin Sun Farms' own About page explicitly frames itself as a market gateway/aggregator for many independent small farms raising livestock to its protocol, plus its own processing plant; it is not itself the single farm that raised the specific pigs Bestia uses. SPECIFICITY GAP: the press source (an interview with chef Ori Menashe) names the exact pig breed cross ('a red wattle/Berkshire cross' fed a GMO-free diet) but Marin Sun Farms' own site does not confirm that this specific cross is what it currently supplies -- under its aggregator model the actual originating farm for that pig genetics is not named. Corroborated as a genuine, verified supplier of pork under this brand at CONFIRMED entity level; the breed-cross specificity itself is chef-sourced only (LIKELY, not independently corroborated).
Meat company founded 1999 by David Evans, an extension of his family's cattle ranch in the Point Reyes National Seashore. Per its own About page, Marin Sun Farms has grown into 'a gateway to market for many small [California] farms raising livestock under [its] stringent protocol' -- i.e. a multi-farm sourcing/branding program, not a single ranch -- while also operating its own vertically integrated USDA-inspected slaughterhouse (the last remaining one in the SF Bay Area, Certified Organic and Animal Welfare Approved facility) in Petaluma.
Products
beeflambgoatporkvealpoultry
Practices
no antibiotics or hormones everhumanely raised and handledpasture-basedwhole-animal butcheryown USDA-inspected processing facilitynetwork/gateway-to-market for small California family farms
Registry match
Matched to a public certification registry — a separate record, not a Terroir-verified supplier relationship.
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What the quality assessment above is built on.