Farms

The 2020 FruitGuys Community Fund Grantees

By The FruitGuys Community Fund on

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 …

The FruitGuys Response to COVID-19

By The FruitGuys on

We will get to the other side of this---together. We wish you, your employees, your vendors, your customers, and their families the best, and especially good health. Please let us know of any way that …

Deadly Harvest

By Elisabeth Flynn on

The Farm-to-Table movement of the last decade has celebrated local farmers and their rural lifestyle. Sustainable farming is a wholesome and noble occupation that provides nutritious whole foods to an …

The Little Apple That Could

By Heidi Lewis on

Around the small Northern California town of Sebastopol, you see bumper stickers of all kinds. From the political to the apolitical to cosmic questions such as “What if the hokeypokey is what it’s all …

Live from the Hedgerow

By Shannan Slevin on

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: …

Apples for All

By Heidi Lewis on

To satisfy the sharp desire I hadOf tasting those fair apples, I resolvedNot to defer; hunger and thirst at once /Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scentOf that alluring fruit, …