The Fall equinox on September 23 marks the transition to shorter days across our hemisphere. Autumn also brings an abundance of tasty fall fruit, especially the peak of apple, grape, and pear season. …
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The Fall equinox on September 23 marks the transition to shorter days across our hemisphere. Autumn also brings an abundance of tasty fall fruit, especially the peak of apple, grape, and pear season. …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, Food, FruitGuys News, Nutrition, The FruitLife Tagged With: apples, asian apple pears, different kinds of persimmons, fall, fall fruit, fall fruit guide, grapes, guide to fall fruit, how to extract pomegranate seeds, nutritional benefits of Asian pears, pears, persimmon, what's in season
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I got the call around 2 p.m. They said a candy sugar crash had hit their place of work. This can be a tough town, I told them. There is always a clear plastic bowl filled with miniature chocolates in …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: end of summer, fruitguy noir, harvest, harvest box, healthy office, office fruit, regional mix, seasonal fruit, seasonal mixes, summer fruit, The FruitGuys
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I wasn’t really a very good student. Luckily in elementary school, I had a great teacher who helped me after school with my spelling. Her name was Mrs. Unruh. She used to devise little tricks to help …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: farm to fight hunger, fight hunger, fighting hunger, food dessert, GoodWorks, hunger relief, The FruitGuys, The FruitGuys GoodWorks
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
It’s hot out there campers. While here in Northern California, we have been blessed with an unusually-cool summer thus far, I know the rest of the country is beating heat records left and right. This …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, Diet and Health, FruitGuys News, Nutrition Tagged With: fruitguys, health, lunch and learn, Nutrition, panel discussion, tab, take a breather, take a breather on demand
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I hope everyone enjoyed a fun and safe July 4th holiday. We gathered with family and friends and ate our way through half a case of apricots my wife had ordered through our buying department. The …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary, The FruitLife Tagged With: Apricot, ask the fruitguys, fruit box, fruit mixes, harvest box, july 4th, peelable, seasonal fruit, seasonal mixes, seasons best, summer fruit, The FruitGuys, the Fruitguys fruit mix tour, variety
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
At this time of year, varieties of peaches begin to come in and out of harvest almost weekly, evolving from June tartness to the cinnamony-sweet notes of late August. As I track the progression of …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, Food, FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary, The FruitLife Tagged With: flavor, fruit varieties, june, June fruit, Peach, peach varieties, peaches, stone fruit, summer fruit, unique
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I love June. It’s the month when stone fruit becomes abundant, the hours of sunlight in the northern hemisphere reach their peak (summer solstice), and when we celebrate both Juneteenth & Pride …
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Filed Under: Diet and Health, FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: black owned business, diverse farmers, diverse vendors, june, June celebrations, June snacks, juneteenth, lqbtq business, pipcorn, pride, pride month, snack highlights, snacks, two chicks jerky
By Pia Hinckle on
Do you remember biting into the first ripe peach of summer? The perfume of the fruit and the feeling of the fuzz in your hand? Summer for many of us is tied to the memory of a perfect piece of fruit. …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, Farms, Food, FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: Angelcots, Blake Carlson, blueberries, bronx grapes, cherries, frecon farms, Fruit World, Mick Klug, Necta Pie, Peach Pies, peaches, stone fruit jam, strawberries, summer fruit, summer fruit guide, summer fruits, suncrest peach, Very Cherry Plums, what fruit is in season, what's in season
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Back in 2018, we began the process of becoming a Certified B Corporation (aka B Corp). We felt it was a good way for us to add transparency to our values-driven business model and to codify our …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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 …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: 2023 grant awards, agricultural nonprofit, big impacts, BIPOC farmers, food access, land stewardship, LGBTQ farmers, small farms, supporting small farms, sustainability, sustainability projects, The FruitGuys Community Fund, women in agriculture
By Sheila Cassani on
Each spring, The FruitGuys Community Fund provides annual grant awards for sustainability projects to small, independent American farms and agricultural nonprofits. We believe small farms are critical …
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Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Long ago I wondered why slot machines used cherries as the winning images for hitting the jackpot. It didn’t make sense to me. Maybe a dollar sign, or a star, but cherries? It seemed odd. Yet a …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: California, cherries, cherry harvest, cherry trees, chill hours, stone fruit, summer fruit
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I was once told by a trusted friend that, for impatient people like me who sometimes think that acting fast produces a greater result in a shorter amount of time, it is actually the ability to slow …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: 25 year impact report, fighting hunger, GoodWorks, Impact Report, supporting small farms, The FruitGuys GoodWorks
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
The text came in old school: via Cowbell Morse code. “You’re a little rusty,” my catfish Bicycle mimed to me while I wrote down the incoming message. “Got it,” I quickly flagged back to Bicycle in …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: fruit, fruit and nature, fruitguy noir, fruitguys, rabbit hole, spinning mind
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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Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: community fund, earth day, farm grants, farm stewardship, frecon farms, fruitguys community fund, land stewardship, life cycle, power of fruit, regeneration, sustainability, sustainable farming
By Elisabeth Flynn on
It’s a spring like no other, with most of us hunkered down at home and waiting for the waiting to be over. While we wait, you can enjoy the bounty of spring fruit that The FruitGuys will be bringing …
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Filed Under: Diet and Health, Food, FruitGuys News, The FruitLife
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
As part of our celebration of 25 years in business, we are dusting off some of my classic newsletters. Here’s one from 2006 that reveals the inspiration behind The FruitGuys Bananas. It must …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: 25 year anniversary, bananas, bananas in vegas, fruitguys 25 years, fruitguys bananas, The FruitGuys
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