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Since 2013, The FruitGuys Community Fund has given out annual grants of $5,000 or less to small farms and agricultural nonprofits across the country. That first year, we awarded five sustainable farming grants. This year, I’m proud to announce that we’re awarding twenty-one across seventeen states! Each farm will use its grant for a sustainability project. This Year’s Sustainability Projects
Many small-scale farmers want to rebuild their soil, support their local pollinators, or share more environmental education with their communities—but a lack of funding holds them back. That’s where The FruitGuys Community Fund (TFGCF) comes in. Every year, it awards small farm grants to farms and agricultural nonprofits specifically for sustainability projects. 2024: The Biggest Grant Year Yet! In the
I’m happy to report that our 2025 grant cycle is now open! Each year since 2012, The FruitGuys Community Fund (TFGCF) has had the joy and pleasure of issuing farming grants for small farms across the US. To date, we’ve awarded 143 grants across 38 US states and territories. TFGCF’s Farming Grants for Small Farms When our committee picks a new class
Every year, the global media and membership platform Real Leaders® hands out awards to companies that act as forces of good in the world and “prioritize both profit and purpose.” The FruitGuys made the cut in 2023 and 2024—and we’re thrilled to be on the Top Impact Companies list again for the 2025 Real Leaders Impact Awards! The FruitGuys Stood
I have a confession to make. I’m not a big resolution person. It’s not that I don’t set goals—I just have a habit of “setting and forgetting” resolutions. So on New Year’s, I try to ask myself a question instead: What do I want for the year ahead? My 2025 ‘Wants’ for The FruitGuys As I look forward to 2025,
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 first Tuesday of December—is a holiday I can get behind. Giving Tuesday is a day to donate money to the causes you believe in
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 horizon, fall is the perfect time to pick out healthy gifts for employees and gifts for your clients, vendors, and friends. A small gift can go a long
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 mature before harvest. As I read the mid-year updates we just received from The FruitGuys Community Fund’s grantee farmers, their patience really stood out to me.
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 FruitGuys Community Fund (TFGCF). 2024 Small Farm Grants Earlier in 2024, TFGCF awarded farm grants to twenty small farms and agricultural nonprofits from sixteen
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 Brooklyn, New York, at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket. I remember walking up to a farmer’s stand made entirely from stacks and stacks of plastic bins overflowing with grapes.
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 up pretzels and saltines. Those snacks were for a very important trip: She was one of the chaperones on our second-grade son’s field trip to Pie
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 projects impacting water conservation, energy efficiency, biodiversity, pollination, seed preservation, and ecological land management. The majority of small farm grant funds were directed to farmers of color, LGBTQ
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 movement. It champions sourcing seasonal ingredients grown close to home and bringing them directly from the soil to your plate (with a quick pit stop at the sink).
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 fruit, something that sustains and pleases us in the moment, that also acts as a distributor of seeds for future growth. The life cycle for all fruit
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 projects intended to have a positive impact on the environment, local food systems, and farm diversity. More than 70 applicants from all over the country applied for the 2015 grants. The eight
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 went. 2013 Grantees New Family Farm in Sebastopol, CA; Red Heart Ranch in Finley, CA; Snipes Family Farm & Education Center in Morrisville, PA; SAGE Ag-Park in Sunol,
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