Are employees at your office asking for seed oil-free snacks? If they are, Artisan Tropic could be a great choice for your break room! The Hispanic-owned family business makes its chips in Colombia from farm-fresh cassava (a root vegetable) and plantains (a tropical fruit). It fries the chips in local Colombian palm oil. The FruitGuys recently teamed up with Artisan
Sweet-tart Gravenstein apples first arrived in California in 1811, and the trees in farmer John Kolling’s orchard in Sebastopol are almost old enough to remember. “Most of the old Gravs are huge trees—35 feet tall and spreading like crazy,” John told The FruitGuys. “They were planted around 1895.” Every August, John supplies The FruitGuys with rare, organic Gravenstein apples for
What do you get when a church organ builder and a fourth-generation farmer-turned-botanist marry each other? Well, in Parlier, California, you get D.E. Boldt—an organic stone fruit farm with the kind of high-tech fruit packing system that’s rare for a family operation. Meet the Farmers: Dorothy and David Boldt “If I have the green thumb, he has the greasy or
When you grab a bar from the basket of low-sugar snacks in your office break room, do you ever stop to wonder how it got into that wrapper? At YES Bar—a small business that makes healthy, nutty cookie bars for offices—machines didn’t always do the job. At one point, CEO Brennan Spreitzer and his business partner, Jeremy Cohen, got up
What sounds like a health food but tastes like dessert? In our humble opinion, it’s got to be nut butter-filled dates from realsy. They’re healthy office treats that are both super-sweet and nutrient-dense, with just a few ingredients. Though the snacks are simple, the story of how realsy got started (and partnered with The FruitGuys to deliver its snacks to
If you’ve ever enjoyed a fresh, juicy California peach in a delivery from The FruitGuys, you may have Blake Carlson to thank. Blake and his wife Lisa run Rocking Chair Farm Markets, a roughly 400-acre family farm in Kingsburg, California. They grow peaches, nectarines, plums, table grapes, almonds, walnuts, and persimmons—and they’ve helped stock The FruitGuys’ mixed fruit boxes for
When The FruitGuys called farmer Jeff Ferrari of Ferrari Farms to check in on his cherry crop, he was praying for dry weather. He told us that in the final days before picking, a drizzle can wreak havoc on an organic cherry farm. “The rain causes the cherries to crack,” Jeff explained. “This last weekend we did get some rain,
Early Bird Foods & Co. is a nearly 20-year-old company. Its granola is a favorite of Martha Stewart, scored a feature in The New York Times, and even helped inspire the house granola at the Michelin-starred restaurant Eleven Madison Park. But despite this success, the brand doesn’t have a bustling office and a big staff. Instead, Nekisia Davis (Nick-EE-sha) and
When The FruitGuys called farmer Vernon Peterson in late March to talk about organic apricots, he picked up the phone from the middle of his nectarine orchard. His smiling face filled up the video call’s screen, and behind him, we saw a sea of green. “These are our cover crops,” he said, gesturing proudly to what looked like long grasses
In some ways, Alex Duong’s cracker brand, Fair & Square, is a metaphor for his Asian American identity. He grew up eating Chinese food at big family potlucks, and those memories helped inspire his company’s gluten-free snacks for the office break room. His crackers are organic, dairy-free, and allergy-friendly—so almost everyone can enjoy them. But Alex is quick to admit
Until 2019, Bryan Flynn thought that most plastic snack packaging was recyclable. Then, he and his wife Kate cofounded the snack company Sun & Swell, and he discovered the truth: Almost every trail mix bag and snack bar wrapper they made would end up in the landfill. “It was kind of a chilling moment for us,” he told The FruitGuys.
When Gael Orr was a little girl in the 1970s, her mother came home from the grocery store in the tiny town of Nunda, New York, with something special: a jar of organic almond butter made by the local company Once Again Nut Butter. Her mother was thrilled with her find, and Gael ate Once Again’s organic almond and peanut
Marcus Marderosian looks forward to Cara Cara orange season every year. This sweet, low-acid citrus is a type of navel orange, and it typically pops up around Christmas and lingers through spring. You have to hunt for Cara Caras in the grocery store, but Marcus was born into a family of citrus growers in California—so he has easy access to
Drive through Fresno County, California, and your wheels will kick up dust onto row after row of orange trees bearing bright green leaves and glowing fruit. There are more than 19,500 acres of them growing on local fresh fruit farms—but legend has it the county’s crop originated from just a few seeds, planted in 1866 by the matriarch of a
At first glance, Mavuno Harvest’s Chewy Fruit Bites look similar to a lot of other dried fruit products on the market. But take a closer look, and you’ll spot a few things that set these healthy desk snacks apart. First, their shape: Instead of strips or chunks, Mavuno’s dried fruit comes in snack-sized balls that combine two different fruits (like
“Farming is scary. Farming is beautiful. You get your crop and you get to enjoy it and see other people enjoy it. And farming is extremely unpredictable.” Scary, beautiful, and unpredictable—that’s how Megan Shanley Warren describes her life in three words. Megan started farming California finger limes, avocados, passion fruit, and more specialty crops with her father, Jim Shanley, in
When Arielle Levy was a kid, she often came home from school to find her mom, Diana Levy, in the kitchen playing with chocolate. “She made chocolate-covered Oreos, chocolate-covered apples, then moved into chocolate-covered truffles,” Arielle told The FruitGuys. “For a while, she built objects in chocolate, like chocolate high heels!” Arielle had no way of knowing that those kitchen
Persimmons are technically an alternate-bearing crop, which means their trees should produce an avalanche of fruit one year and a smaller yield the next. But when The FruitGuys called farmer Michael Reimer of Brandt Farms to ask about his persimmon season, he told us that his trees usually produce a Goldilocks amount—and this year was no exception. Persimmon Season at
There’s nothing like the sweet, fuzzy face of a dog or cat to make a long day on the farm a little easier. With that in mind, The FruitGuys team asked our farm partners from across the country to send in stories about their four-legged farm hands. Here are a few of our favorites! Shanley Farms: Blue Shanley Farms grows
In 2014, Nancy Kalish started a quest. She set out to make vegan, allergy-friendly brownies out of chickpeas—and get them to actually taste good. “I kept working at it and kept torturing my family and friends with different recipes,” she told The FruitGuys, cracking up at the memory. “… I must have tweaked it well over 100 times. You can
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