farm grants

Want a Greener Future? Help Fund Grants for Small Farms

By Erin Mittelstaedt on

I’ve never been a fan of Black Friday. Getting up early to get in line and shop just doesn’t seem fun to me. I prefer my post-Thanksgiving breakfast pie, thank you very much. But Giving Tuesday—the …

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Fruit & Snack Gift Boxes: Healthy Employee Gifts Are Here!

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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 …

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Behind the Scenes at Brittany’s Bees: A Small Farm Grants Story

By Erin Mittelstaedt on

Farming is an exercise in patience. On average, it takes three years for a new fruit tree to bear fruit. Even fast-growing vegetables, like spinach and radishes, typically need at least 25-30 days to …

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How Small Farms Are Putting Their 2024 Farm Grants to Work

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Supporting small farms is a major part of our mission at The FruitGuys. We source fruit from independent farms for our fruit boxes whenever we can, and we also award farm grants every year through The …

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Wait, When Is Grape Season? Your California Update

By Erin Mittelstaedt on

Cotton Candy™, Moon Drop™, Muscat, Koshu, Bronx, Concord… these aren’t just carnival foods and town names, they’re unique grape varieties, too. I first tried Concord grapes about 20 years ago in …

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Field Trip Fun & Good News for 20 Farms

By Erin Mittelstaedt on

When I walked into the kitchen last Thursday morning, I found my wife, Julie, packing at a furious pace. She was filling a 64-ounce bottle with ice water, chopping apples and strawberries, and bagging …

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2023 Small Farm Grant Winners Share Their Project Achievements

By Sheila Cassani on

In 2023, The FruitGuys Community Fund (TFGCF) awarded its largest class of farm grantees so far: 18 small-scale farms and agricultural non-profits were awarded a total of $83,757 in grant awards for …

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Are Small Farms Important? 6 Reasons to Support Them

By The FruitGuys on

It’s hard to flip through a food magazine these days without coming across an article telling you to “shop small,” “eat local,” or “support a farmer.” That’s largely thanks to the farm-to-table …

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Fruit in Words and Deeds

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

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 …

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From Seed to Need

By Sheila Cassani on

The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, will award small American farms and agricultural nonprofits a total of $35,643 in 2015 for sustainability …

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Alumni Grantees: Class of 2013

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on

In the Community Fund’s first year of operation, we gave nearly $20,000 in grants to five farms and agricultural nonprofits in California and Pennsylvania. Here are some updates on how their projects …

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