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Spring is a funny season in the fruit world. To me, it feels like the appetizer (or, if we’re being fancy, the amuse-bouche) before a lovely meal. It’s delicious and whets our appetite, but it’s not the main course—that’s summer fruit! Still, I love the warm weather and seeing the flowers and trees bloom. And our farm partners are picking
Think about the coffee shop where you grab your coffee or tea during the workday. Does the company running it share your values? You probably don’t know whether the worker handing over your drink makes a living wage, or if the shop prioritizes sustainability. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to find out: Use B Lab’s searchable B Corp directory to
A diverse group of women farmers dominate the 2022 class of grantees for The FruitGuys Community Fund, the nonprofit’s 10th year of providing grants to small farms and agricultural nonprofits that have big impacts on their sustainability and their communities. A majority of these 17 farms are owned or led by women who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color
Leticia Velazquez, The FruitGuys Midwest Operations Manager, was one of four people chosen for the prestigious Frieda Rapoport Caplan Family Business Scholarship Program for 2021. The program provides scholarships for representatives from family businesses to participate in the United Fresh Washington Conference (held Sept. 20-22, 2021) which brings participants to the nation’s capital to learn from and engage with congressional
2020 was a terrible year and yet the generosity of our community allowed us to bring healthy food to nearly two million people: neighbors in need, frontline healthcare workers, and public school kids and families. Buying your fruit from us on a regular basis helps our B Corp business support the small farms we partner with and the non-profits we
The FruitGuys Community Fund 2020 grantee farms have sent us their interim updates, and in spite of the pandemic, these farms and organizations have done some incredible work! These 15 small farms and agricultural nonprofits in 14 different states were awarded a total of $51,098.87 in funding for sustainability projects that reduce power use, increase yields, conserve water and soil,
The FruitGuys has donated nearly eight million servings of farm-fresh fruit to people in need across the United States over the last five years, with almost 2 million servings in 2018 alone. The FruitGuys GoodWorks program fights hunger through direct produce donations from our warehouses and from generous FruitGuys clients via our Donate-a-Crate program. As the nonprofit arm of the
The USDA classifies family farms as “any farm organized as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or family corporation.” But a cold definition is never the whole story, is it? Mick Klug grew up on his family’s farm. His parents established their 40-acre farm in the 1930s. The reason you often hear of farms being in parcels of 40 acres is because
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