I was driving home last week when I had a sudden flash of memory. I’m standing in the green grass field at my elementary school in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It’s the late ‘80s, and my classmates and I are writing messages about ourselves on notecards and tying them to helium balloons. It’s almost time for the big sendoff: The
Your fruit has a story—but do you know it? We’ve gathered answers to some of the most common questions we get about where our produce comes from to help you get acquainted. 1. Where does The FruitGuys’ produce come from? We source our produce from small family farms near our regional hubs whenever we can. However, we can’t source from
In the modern workplace, more companies are prioritizing sustainability alongside productivity, and employee preferences are spurring them on. A 2023 Deloitte survey found that more than two–thirds of employees prefer to work for environmentally responsible companies. If your office is moving in a greener direction, engaging in Earth Day office activities is a great way to reinforce that commitment. Why
Until 2019, Bryan Flynn thought that most plastic snack packaging was recyclable. Then, he and his wife Kate cofounded the snack company Sun & Swell, and he discovered the truth: Almost every trail mix bag and snack bar wrapper they made would end up in the landfill. “It was kind of a chilling moment for us,” he told The FruitGuys.
Thanksgiving is the ultimate food-centric holiday, and end-of-year office parties, potlucks, and treats are just around the corner. These cheerful events can easily turn into food waste disasters. Luckily, a little planning can go a long way toward reducing the amount of food we all throw away at work! These tips for preventing food waste in the office will help
Whether you’re already a FruitGuys customer or just scoping out our selection of office snacks, you might have wondered how we choose the bars, bites, jerkies, and more that end up in our snack delivery boxes. How do we decide which brands make the cut? Are there rules? And what exactly comes in a FruitGuys snack box? The short answer
Last week, FruitGuys staff had the pleasure of participating in nearly a dozen different Earth Day events across the country. We brought a dancing banana man to an office lobby, ran a local honey tasting, hosted Sumo Citrus ® tastings in eight cities, and more. Kumquat Wonder For me, there is nothing more fun than working at tasting events. I
The FruitGuys is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI Month) by featuring two AAPI-owned snacks as our Snacks of the Month. Learn more about Pan’s Mushroom Jerky and Green Mustache below. Pan’s Mushroom Jerky: Michael’s Story In 2006, Michael Pan traveled almost 10,000 miles from his hometown in Mississippi to the Malaysian island of Borneo to visit
If you’re worried about the food waste piling up in trash cans at your office, composting at work might be the perfect solution. Composting is an incredible process that turns undesirable organic waste into valuable, nutrient-rich fertilizer. It’s also great for the planet—and it’s easier than you might think. Companies all over the country are already composting in their offices.
What if the snacks you ate at work didn’t just taste good, but helped fight climate change, too? Three of The FruitGuys’ snack partners—The Gluten Free Brothers, Climate Candy, and BjornQorn—are making sustainable snacks that do just that. All three of these eco-friendly brands are working toward a waste-free, clean-energy future. Read on to learn more about their snacks and stories, just
It’s Friday afternoon, and you’re passing the office break room on your way out for the weekend. You pop in to grab a snack for the road and notice something strange: The fruit bowl still has fruit in it! Two apples and a banana recline there, waiting to be snapped up. By Monday, they won’t be fresh anymore—so what can
If you compost at your office, you probably know the basics: Eggshells, apple cores, and veggie peels are safe to add to your compost bucket, but raw meat and produce stickers should be trashed. Easy, right? Well, maybe not — because it’s only a matter of time before you run into the “Can I put citrus in compost?” debate. An old gardening
It’s citrus season! As we write this, thousands of navel oranges, mandarins, and lemons are ripening to their brightest and most beautiful colors, begging to be picked. One of our favorite ways to preserve the citrus bounty from our seasonal boxes is to dry the fruit for DIY holiday decorations. Below, you’ll find a step-by-step guide from the FruitGuys’ Jessica
Each spring, The FruitGuys Community Fund provides annual grant awards for sustainability projects to small, American farms and agricultural nonprofits. An independent review committee made up of a majority of non-FruitGuys volunteers evaluates and scores the applicants’ projects. The FruitGuys (business) covers all administrative and staffing costs, in addition to contributing to the annual grant budget. The FruitGuys Community Fund
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
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
Narrator: She didn’t eat it later. How many times have you opened up your refrigerator at work to face a wall of half-full Tupperwarecontainers and week-old to-go boxes of food that will eventually be thrown out? Despite our best intentions, we waste a lot of food at work. Food waste does more than just stink up your fridge. Reducing food waste
Frecon Farms, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is as rich in history and community as it is in apples and stone fruits. Founded in 1944 by Richard S. Frecon and his wife, Martha, the orchard started as an apple and peach farm. As fruit production grew, so did the Frecon family. They raised six children on the land, all of whom worked
Embracing the dry June heat of San Joaquin County is a small price to pay when exploring the grounds of Lagier Ranches. This 120-acre family-run farm in Escalon, CA, is rich in trees and small fruits: almond trees, grapes, table grapes, citrus, and cherries. Keep your eyes peeled for their Bronx grapes in some of The FruitGuys’ summer mixes. Run
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 colony of honeybees. The project was the brainchild of The FruitGuys Garden Committee, which built several planter boxes and installed pollinator-friendly plants to support the colony.
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