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Sunfield

Bakersfield, CA (Kern County), USA

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Quality assessment

Caveats

FIRST-PARTY / VERTICAL-INTEGRATION DISCLOSURE (cf. Take It Easy Roasters, Heritage Farm precedent): this is Pine & Crane owner-chef Vivian Ku's OWN FAMILY'S farm, not an independent third-party supplier -- 'Ku's parents still own one parcel of the original 50 acres. That is where the vegetables served at Pine & Crane are grown' (Ku's own words, PBS SoCal). Recorded as entity_kind='not-a-supplier' so it is never scored as a third-party sourcing partnership. Record ownership prominently: same-family, vertical integration. No venue_farms link created per brief.

Family-owned Asian-vegetable farm in Bakersfield, CA, purchased by chef Vivian Ku's parents (~50 acres) after the family moved from Rowland Heights in the 1980s when Ku was five. Per Ku's own account (PBS SoCal, 'The Migrant Kitchen'): the family leased/grew for years, eventually retired, and her parents 'still own one parcel of the original 50 acres. That is where the vegetables served at Pine & Crane are grown.' Named 'Sunfield' in independent 2015 press (Remodelista).

Products

Asian vegetables (cucumbers, snow peas, garlic chives, pea shoots, yellow watermelon, bok choy)

Served at

Sources

What the quality assessment above is built on.

  • pbssocal.org ↗

    public-media feature with direct Ku quotes: parents purchased 50 acres in Bakersfield in the 1980s, grew Asian vegetables (cucumbers, snow peas, garlic chives, yellow watermelon), still own one parcel that supplies Pine & Crane today

  • web.archive.org ↗

    independent design/lifestyle press (2015, wayback snapshot; live URL now tooling-cannot-read-it): 'she sources produce from Sunfield, her family's Asian vegetable farm in Bakersfield' -- names the farm 'Sunfield' explicitly

  • storyplaterecipes.com ↗

    independent chef-profile page: 'Vivian Ku grew up on her family's Chinese vegetable farm in Bakersfield, California'

  • milkeninstitute.org ↗

    independent conference-speaker bio: 'Vivian grew up on her parent's Asian vegetable farm in Bakersfield, California'