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There’s nothing quite like an Ojai Pixie tangerine. This small, seedless citrus fruit hails from California’s Ojai Valley, where the hot days and cool nights make it intensely juicy and sweet. Ojai Pixie season typically doesn’t arrive until March, but it’s well worth the wait! Each year’s crop varies in size and quantity, so ahead of the highly anticipated 2026
Last November, fog slipped over California’s Central Valley like a thick gray-white blanket. The bright and bustling citrus orchards dimmed. Mist drifted between the trees, and temperatures dropped to a chilly 45 degrees. Deprived of sunlight, the oranges and mandarins stopped growing. Then, they started falling from their branches. If you noticed a shortage of citrus in your fruit deliveries
In the chilly heart of winter, Rising C Ranches is alive with colorful exotic fruit. Bright yellow Buddha’s hands dangle from trees, reaching for the ground with bumpy fingers, and golfball-sized mandarinquats hang overhead like orange teardrops. It’s a winter wonderland of citrus—and Jacob Labogin, the director of farm and harvest operations, keeps it all going. “We pack around thirty-five
In the deep cold of a Chicago winter, when the trees are leafless and you have to wear snow boots to work, you might think that there’s no local fruit to be found. But peek inside an office fruit delivery from The FruitGuys, and you might find local gems—like apples from Lehman’s Orchard! Lehman’s is a third-generation family farm in
The egg shape, pebbly skin, and yellow-green flesh of the Hass avocado is iconic. That’s because 95% of the avocados Americans eat are Hasses! But there’s a whole world of avocado varieties out there to explore. Consider the grapefruit-sized Reed, the long-necked Pinkerton with its tiny seed, the Florida Brogden with its edible skin, and bite-sized GatorEggs™, just to name
September brings an avalanche of fruit to Beechwood Orchards in Biglerville, Pennsylvania. For a few glorious and stressful weeks, Melissa Allen and her family are busy as bees picking peaches, apples, and Asian pears all at once. They sell their fruit at farmers’ markets and to The FruitGuys for its East Coast corporate fruit deliveries to offices like yours. “We’re
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
Oranges and peaches have a few key things in common: They’re both round fruits with orange skin, and they taste juicy and sweet when you take a bite. But does that mean they’re in the same fruit family? Here at The FruitGuys, we’ve delivered both peaches and oranges to offices for more than 25 years—so we know all about their family
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