Congratulations to longtime friend and farmer Lee Walker. Lee is being awarded the “Lifetime Contribution to Sonoma County Agriculture” by the 2008 Sonoma Harvest Fair. The Harvest Fair is an annual showcase of Sonoma’s diverse agricultural bounty and an award from the Fair is consider quite a hallmark among the locals. Lee has been farming [...]
None of Your Beeswax! (The Get-The-Bees Address)
Four hives and five months ago, The FruitGuys brought forth to Gabriel Farm a prodigious gift of pollination, conceived in the spirit of Farm Stewardship and dedicated to the proposition that all fruits must be fertilized equally or an orchard cannot endure. Dedicated though we are to the ideals of supporting sustainably grown local agriculture, [...]
A Place to Hang Out
‘Tis the season for Bela Lugosi impressions, fake blood, and rubber bats dangling from doorways. But The FruitGuys has real bats on its mind. On behalf of our vespertilian friends, this week The FruitGuys Farm Steward Program installed bat boxes at the historic Jelich Ranch in Portola Valley, Ca. FruitGuys Bridget Meigs and Dan Lemley [...]
Forward your Fresh Fruit
Food banks in many of our metropolitan areas are facing increased demand and decreased monetary donations this season. One way you can help is to forward your office fruit to people in need if your office is closed, or minimally staffed, during the holidays. The FruitGuys Donate-A-Crate program is an easy way to help others. [...]
Fruit Forwarding a Hit!
FruitGuys clients love their weekly fruit but many of you were generous enough to forward that fruit to people in need during the Thanksgiving holiday when your offices were closed or minimally staffed. Our Donate-A-Crate Program shipped 71 FruitCrates over to San Francisco’s Family House, Riley Center, City Harvest in New York City, and the [...]
FruitGuys Customers Rock! 7300 Servings of Fresh Fruit Donated
We want to thank all the generous FruitGuys clients who forwarded their holiday crates to those in need through our Donate-A-Crate program. More than 180 crates – that’s 7,300 pieces of fruit – were sent to food-banks and programs for families in need between the Thanksgiving and New Years holidays. Your crates went to The [...]
The Bee Beat
Bees and the pollination they provide are essential to growing fruits and veggies but their numbers have mysteriously declined in the past decade, so FruitGuys News has started a Bee Beat to cover these unsung farm heroes. We’ve reported on the FruitGuys Farm Steward beehive program and the Bees vs. Seeds conundrum in Fresno, CA. [...]
Fruit Delivery to your Space Station!
Well maybe not this year, but perhaps in the future if our friends at XCOR have anything to do with it. Faithful FruitGuys customer XCOR Aerospace is an aerospace engineering company based in Mojave, CA. This hot and windy locale is known as the first civilian inland spaceport in the country. “When FruitGuys starts sending [...]
Pick a Peck a
Here at The FruitGuys we work with fruit all week, but we still love it on the weekends. For those who haven’t tried it we’d like to recommend a U-Pick outing. East Coast residents have incorporated apple picking into their fall activities for generations. With the growing interest in local farming, the varieties of “agri-tourism” [...]
Marty’s Angels
“They’re here! They’re here!” The FruitGuys’ buyers exclaim as if they were kids and a favorite rapscallion uncle has just pulled up in a convertible Caddy with a trunk load of fireworks. FruitGuys’ staff and customers are always delighted at the annual appearance of the Anglecot. The Angelcot is a light cream-colored apricot with a [...]
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