What does summer mean to you? Is it the office’s AC hitting you like a brick wall every morning? Or the joy of jumping into the pool with your kids? Those are both good answers, but for us, it’s the sweet, juicy taste of a fuzzy peach still warm from the tree. If fruit is a summer highlight for you, too, you’re in the right place. Our 2025 guide to summer fruits will give you a peek at the flavors you can expect in our fruit delivery boxes this season.
Specifically, this is a guide to our Harvest Mix—the box featuring our widest variety of seasonal fruit, including the occasional heirloom pick and tropical bite. You’ll see summer fruits in our Staples and Season’s Best mixes, too, but the large Harvest (50 servings) has the most diverse seasonal options inside. That means it packs in the most summer flavor and the most health benefits, since dieticians recommend eating a rainbow of produce.
One more thing before we dig in: We source fruit from small farms near you whenever we can, so the exact mix of fruits in your box will vary from region to region and week to week. Our buyers choose the best of what’s available. To see what’s in your mix this week, just tell us your zip code.
Now, let’s talk about those summer flavors!
Summer is the season of stone fruits (fruits with pits or “stones”) like apricots, cherries, peaches, and plums. It will also bring berries, summer citrus, grapes, and even early-season apples and pears by the end of September.
So far, 2025 is shaping up to be a great year for stone fruit. The peaches and nectarines we’ve gotten from California farmers taste delicious, and there are many more to come. We’re also in for an early grape season, with harvest already underway. Read on to learn more about our favorite varieties and the farmers who grow them across the country.
California strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries are here! Western mixes will feature summer strawberries from JSM Organics and blueberries from Homegrown Organic Farms. We’ve also stocked up on berries from Bonita Farms, which has an extra-long berry season because it grows its fruit in sheltered tunnels.
Folks in the Central and Western US can look forward to blueberries in July. Some Central mixes may have Michigan berries from Mick Klüg Farms near Chicago. These antioxidant-rich little beauties are a staple of summer eating, and if the Midwest’s blueberry season is as favorable as California’s was this year, they should be abundant and delicious.
Side note, we’ve had blueberries on the brain this year because in May, The FruitGuys Community Fund awarded a small farm grant to Blessed Up Blooms in Atlanta, Georgia. The grant of $4,975 will help farmer Nailah Marie Ellis plant native Rabbiteye blueberry bushes, making her organic farm more biodiverse and sustainable.
The start of the 2025 stone fruit season was a little shaky with a smaller-than-expected crop of California cherries. But in the coming months, customers from coast to coast will enjoy classic summer fruits like juicy peaches, nectarines, and plums, along with vibrant plum-apricot hybrids like apriums, plumcots, and pluots. They’re all high in vitamins C and A, and great sources of dietary fiber.
On the West Coast, we’re already getting early stone fruits from Blake Carlson of Rocking Chair Farm Markets, a longtime farm partner who will supply us with peaches, nectarines, plums, and more all summer long. We’ve partnered with Blake for almost twenty years.
Look for special bites from our other partners in California mixes, too, including Angelcot® apricots from Frieda’s, heirloom Suncrest peaches from Masumoto Family Farm, and Verry Cherry plums (a tasty cherry-plum hybrid) from New Excelsior Farming via The Flavor Tree Fruit Company.
Central US customers will see apricots and a parade of other stone fruits—including donut peaches, nectarines, white peaches, and plums—from Mick Klüg Farms through the summer. On the East Coast, look for saucer-shaped Saturn Donut peaches from our longtime partner Frecon Farms in Pennsylvania (farmer Steve Freccon shares his favorite varieties in the video below). Stone fruits have some of the best names in the fruit world, and our mouths are watering at the thought of beauties like Dapple Dandy pluots, Peacotums, and Necta Pies!
Too much stone fruit? Try this easy galette recipe, courtesy of FruitGuy Joy Padilla.
The fresh apple and pear crops always sneak up on us—it’s hard to believe these classic fall fruits arrive in mid-summer. California Bartlett and Bosc pears will be first in from the orchard in mid-to-late July, followed in August by early apples like the buttery yellow Ginger Gold (picked across the country) and the rare Gravenstein.
The “Grav” has a special place in our hearts—it’s an endangered apple grown in Sonoma County, California. We’ll feature Gravensteins in their own special box this summer, and give a portion of its proceeds back to the farmers to encourage them to keep planting. You can sign up for Gravenstein updates now.
Central and Eastern mixes may see local pears in September, when our friends at Mick Klüg Farms and Kauffman Orchards in Pennsylvania start picking some of their sweetest varieties.
Yes, there is a citrus fruit on our summer fruits list! We’re saying goodbye to the navel oranges of winter and spring and welcoming Valencia oranges, which are named for the Spanish city. Valencias have thin skins and few seeds, and are considered one of the best oranges for juicing. If you’re not sure about the difference between a navel and a Valencia, here’s a tip: The navel orange has a belly button on its underside, which is how it gets its name.
You may notice some green on your summer oranges. If you do, don’t sweat it—they’re not underripe. You’re actually seeing a fruit beauty mark called citrus regreening, which happens when oranges get an extra dose of sun in the orchard. The sun triggers chlorophyll production in the peel to help protect the fruit from sunburn. This can give summer oranges a green color that’s not only safe to eat, but, one farmer told us, could hint that the fruit is extra sweet.
We’re expecting California grapes to arrive full-force in mid-to-late June. From crisp and tubular Moon Drops™ grapes to extra-sweet Cotton Candy™ grapes and juicy Bronx grapes (nicknamed the “Rolls Royce of table grapes” for their sweet and smooth taste), there’s a grape for everyone!
Stay tuned for more on grapes in our 2025 Fall Fruit Guide, and in the meantime…
If your office gets recurring deliveries of our Harvest Mix, these flavorful summer fruits are already headed your way! If not, this is a great time to upgrade your mix to the Harvest, or try out office fruit delivery from The FruitGuys for the first time. Just choose your favorite box and ideal frequency (weekly, every other week, or monthly) and eat your way through our Summer Fruit Guide all season long.
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