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Weiser Family Farms

Mid family farm across three California growing areas; acreage not published.

Tehachapi, Bakersfield area and Lucerne Valley, California, USA

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weiserfamilyfarms.com ↗verification source ↗

Solid

Quality assessment

A real, well-documented multi-generation California family farm: Sid Weiser left teaching high-school chemistry in East LA in 1977 to farm in Tehachapi; the family now grows year-round across Tehachapi, the Bakersfield area and Lucerne Valley and built its business by selling DIRECT at Southern California farmers markets rather than through brokers — son Alex has run the market side since 1982. Chef-favourite status is genuine. It stops short of exemplary on one honest, self-disclosed point below.

Scale
Mid family farm across three California growing areas; acreage not published.
Feed & inputs
Growing practices not published in detail.
Animal welfare
N/A.
Environmental
Nothing certified located.
Transparency
High on identity and history; the organic status is disclosed candidly (see caveats), which is itself a transparency positive.

Caveats

ORGANIC STATUS — the farm was REGISTERED ORGANIC for many years but discontinued the certification because it lacked the infrastructure to maintain it. So a venue calling Weiser produce 'organic' is making a claim the farm itself does not currently hold. Credit 'Weiser Family Farms' as a strong named-farm claim; do NOT credit organic. Not yet linked to a venue row in our graph (carried from the CEO purveyor list; associated with LAVO).

Family-owned produce farm in the Los Angeles/Southern California area, selling peak-season fruits and vegetables (including potatoes) via a seasonal Community Supported Agriculture market box and Southern California farmers markets; third-generation family members, including Dan and Esther Weiser, run the operation.

Products

stone fruitpotatoesmelonsvegetablesflowers

Served at

Sources

What the quality assessment above is built on.

  • weiserfamilyfarms.com ↗

    Sid Weiser left teaching in 1977 to farm in Tehachapi; family history; growing regions

  • caff.org ↗

    Registered organic for many years but did not have the infrastructure to continue the certification

  • freshpoint.com ↗

    Direct farmers-market model rather than brokers; Alex Weiser joined 1982; grows in Bakersfield area, Tehachapi and Lucerne Valley