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Farm Grantees Make Progress Despite Pandemic

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on September 18, 2020

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 …

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The 2020 FruitGuys Community Fund Grantees

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on May 13, 2020

During the COVID-19 crisis, small farms are showing once again just how essential they are to keeping our local communities fed, healthy, and functioning. The FruitGuys Community Fund is excited to …

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Got Bees at Work?

By Julie Collins on May 24, 2016

In 2015, the side lot next to The FruitGuys headquarters in South San Francisco was a gravelly, unused, weed-infested strip of land. Today it’s abuzz with activity, transformed into a cozy home for a …

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2015 GoodWorks Annual Report

By Sheila Cassani on February 24, 2016

The FruitGuys donated more than 1.3 million servings of produce directly to those in need during 2015, a new record for the South San Francisco–based company. Nearly 700,000 pounds of fruit and …

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Small Grants, Big Impacts

By Sheila Cassani on September 9, 2015

Reduced carbon footprints and record numbers of pollinators are just a couple highlights of the early results farms are reporting as a result of the agriculture sustainability grants they received …

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The Bee Beat

By Heidi Lewis on April 18, 2013

Notes From a Freshman Beekeeper Who is a bee's favorite singer? Sting. Favorite band? The Bee Gees. Why do bees hum? Because they don't know the words—OK, OK, enough of the second-grade jokes. It's …

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What’s Killing the Bees?

By Eileen Ecklund on April 18, 2013

Beekeepers Report Huge Losses Over Winter By Eileen Ecklund Spring is in the air. Across the country, trees and other plants are bursting into flower, and bees are busy pollinating them. But this …

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How Do I Love Bee?

By Heidi Lewis on October 7, 2010

Farmer-Beekeepers Count the Ways Honey from bees is quite the miracle. Why does it taste so good? And why does it have so many healing properties? Many scientists have studied the organization of …

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None of Your Beeswax! (The Get-The-Bees Address)

By FruitGuys Staff on November 20, 2009

Four hives and five months ago, The FruitGuys brought forth to Gabriel Farm a prodigious gift of pollination, conceived in the spirit of Farm Stewardship and dedicated to the proposition that all …

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