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Can you believe it’s Q4 already? Before you know it, your coworkers will be picking up turkeys, buying new candles, and humming holiday jingles between meetings. With the seasonal hubbub on the horizon, fall is the perfect time to pick out healthy gifts for employees and gifts for your clients, vendors, and friends. A small gift can go a long
Note: This is an older blog post. For the latest updates on this year’s Gravenstein season, please visit our Annual Gravenstein Apple Box page. For fruit lovers, Gravenstein apple season is like Christmas in August. The harvest of this endangered Northern California heirloom apple happens in a very short window of just two or three weeks every year. It’s a
The idiom “stop and smell the roses” is pretty dang good—but at this year’s West Coast Produce Expo, it got a 21st-century upgrade. FruitGuys Produce Buyer Miguel Esteban Robles came back from the event with a bushel of ideas thanks in part to keynote speaker Erik Wahl. “His message was to be creative, think out of the box, be innovative,
The 2023-24 school year was the busiest yet for the FruitGuys Farm-to-School Program, and we couldn’t be more proud of the work our school team has done to bring fresh fruit and vegetables to students across California. Our Farm-to-School Program: By the Numbers These numbers were possible in part because we provide produce options for every meal that schools serve.
With the right seasonal fruit mix, your team will get to taste all of the freshest flavors the season has to offer. Think juicy summer peaches, sweet spring berries, crisp autumn grapes, and winter treats from the tropics! How to Upgrade Your Fruit Mix for More Seasonal Goodness We make it easy to upgrade from a Staples Mix to a
Whether you’re already a FruitGuys customer or just scoping out our selection of office snacks, you might have wondered how we choose the bars, bites, jerkies, and more that end up in our snack delivery boxes. How do we decide which brands make the cut? Are there rules? And what exactly comes in a FruitGuys snack box? The short answer
Every winter, FruitGuys Senior Buyer and Chief Fruit Detective Rebecca North counts down the days to the EcoFarm Conference. The event hosted by the non-profit Ecological Farming Association brings together farmers, educators, scientists, and more for four days of workshops, farm tours, and presentations. This year, EcoFarm 2024 popped up in Pacific Grove, CA, and ran from Jan. 16–20. “More
Our team at The FruitGuys spends every day thinking about food — so it’s no surprise we’re big fans of holiday feasts! Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite holiday recipes and traditions. Delicious Dishes Worth Waiting For In Erin’s family, pie is more than a dessert during the holiday season: It’s a love language. So far, she
Editor’s Note: The gifts listed below were available for the 2023 holiday season. To see our current gift lineup, click here. Can you believe the holidays are only weeks away? To make your shopping easy, we’ve launched a fresh lineup of FruitGuys gift baskets. You can choose from eight crowd-pleasing and impactful baskets that will wow your employees, clients, vendors,
The FruitGuys, the pioneering B Corp Certified provider of farm-fresh fruit and healthy snacks to American workplaces, has announced new leadership. Erin Mittelstaedt, chief operating officer, has taken over the CEO and Chief Banana role from Founder Chris Mittelstaedt. Chris founded the company and launched the fruit-at-work space with his wife, Pia Hinckle, in their San Francisco kitchen in 1998.
I got the call around 2 p.m. They said a candy sugar crash had hit their place of work. This can be a tough town, I told them. There is always a clear plastic bowl filled with miniature chocolates in reception. This time of year the Halloween candy can show up early. It’s criminal – and food crimes are the
Summer for many of us is tied to the memory of a perfect piece of fruit. The tartness of that just-picked blackberry; the smell of a peach so sweet you salivate in anticipation of biting into it. I have touched on summer fruits here and there (last week I heralded the arrival of plums!) but I thought it might be
My catfish Bicycle was 20 minutes into their workout on our new aqua treadmill when their hydrophone rang. “Blub, blub,” they mouthed in my direction, quickly transferring the call and motioning for me to pick up. I put a headset on over my Monday hockey helmet. “Yell-o,” I said casually. “Did you say “yellow?” A voice whispered tensely. “Yes,” I
At this time of year, varieties of peaches begin to come in and out of harvest almost weekly, evolving from June tartness to the cinnamony-sweet notes of late August. As I track the progression of summer through its changing taste, I find memories of taste and place getting triggered in my head. The summer I turned thirteen, I tasted raw
I love June. It’s the month when stone fruit becomes abundant, the hours of sunlight in the northern hemisphere reach their peak (summer solstice), and when we celebrate both Juneteenth & Pride month. Celebrating and bringing interest to the stories, successes, and struggles of Americans who are Black and/or LGBTQ+ is important to our company. We support a world that
Back in 2018, we began the process of becoming a Certified B Corporation (aka B Corp). We felt it was a good way for us to add transparency to our values-driven business model and to codify our mission of supporting small farm sustainability and fighting hunger while creating healthier workplaces. In 2019 we became certified, knowing that every three years,
The text came in old school: via Cowbell Morse code. “You’re a little rusty,” my catfish Bicycle mimed to me while I wrote down the incoming message. “Got it,” I quickly flagged back to Bicycle in semaphore, “And no one’s called me Little Rusty since second grade.” The message was clear: an etymologist had fallen down a naming rabbit hole
The struggle and beauty of fruit, its cultivation and care, is a dance of regenerative-impermanence. As we approach Earth Day, I find myself fascinated with the idea that the earth itself gives us fruit, something that sustains and pleases us in the moment, that also acts as a distributor of seeds for future growth. The life cycle for all fruit
As a business that values creativity and community engagement, we were thrilled to receive so many entries for our fruit poem contest! We were blown away by the depth of thought and imagination that went into each and every submission, and we wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the participants. From haikus to limericks, free
Tuesday was on my calendar for a meeting on Monday. It had been there since Thursday penciled it in on Friday. I was confusing myself as to who was what-day and what-day was who so I tried to clear my mind by counting backward from a coil-of-rope-snare to an arch-shaped-bone using the ancient Egyptian numbering system. That steadied me. When
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