In my early twenties, I started a love affair with cherries. I was doing a six-week language program through my college in Tours, France, and my host family lived on a quiet street just uphill from …
Upgrade Your Fruit Mix to Get the Widest Variety of Summer Fruit
Summer is the perfect time to upgrade your fruit mix! With the right mix, your team will get to taste all of the fantastic peaches, nectarines, plums, berries, grapes, and other fruits in season …
‘Structure’ Is the Magic Word: Employee Mental Health Tips
In 2013, I signed up for a weekly mediation class at the San Francisco Zen Center on a whim. I’m still not a regular meditator but it was a valuable and important class for me. The part that I …
Need Pride Month Snacks for the Office? Try Two Chicks Jerky!
In the summer of 2012, married couple Shannon Ronan and Breelyn MacDonald put their bartending jobs on hold, tossed their backpacks into the back of their Honda Fit, and left their home in San Rafael, …
Summer Fruits You Should Taste
Did you know that American farmers grow more than 100 different varieties of peaches? Most of us think of peaches as either white or yellow (same with nectarines) but there are at least 1,000 kinds of …
The Ultimate Office Snack Box Guide
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 …
Field Trip Fun & Good News for 20 Farms
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 …
The FruitGuys Community Fund 2024 Farm Grantees Announced
Twenty farm grantees from 16 states make up the largest class to date for The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit that funds small independent farms and agricultural nonprofits that regenerate the …
A Tale of Prison, Peaches, and Persistence
Last year, my family and I had the honor of hearing artist Jeanie Kashima, a longtime friend of my parents, speak about her amazing collages at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical …
Farmer of the Month: John Warmerdam of New Excelsior Farming
When John Warmerdam was a kid, his school bus didn’t drop him off at home—or even at the corner near his house. Instead, it took him to his family’s fruit packing shed. “That’s where my …
My New Favorite Kumquat Mocktail Recipe
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 …
Snack Stories: Meet the Founders Behind 2 AAPI-Owned Snacks
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 …
Farmer of the Month: Javier Zamora of JSM Organics
Stepping out of the car and onto the soil of JSM Organics in Royal Oaks, California, felt like setting foot in an orderly kind of paradise. Spring sunshine swept over the strawberry fields and …
Office Composting 101: How to Start Composting at Work
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 …
How to Plan an Office Snack Tasting or Fruit Tasting Like a Pro
Hosting group events like lunch-and-learns and holiday celebrations in the office is a great way to boost employee happiness, teach your team something new, and nourish their sense of community. When …
3 Sustainable Snacks to Eat at Work for Earth Month
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 …
20+ B Corp Companies to Brighten Your Workday
Think about the coffee shop where you grab your coffee or tea during the workday. Does the company running it share your values? You probably don’t know whether the worker handing over your drink …
5 Reasons Customers Love Our Office Snacks (In Their Words!)
There are dozens of places to source office snacks—so why choose snack delivery from The FruitGuys? Our customers have shared a lot of thoughts on this over the years, so we rounded up a few of the …
What to Do With Leftover Fruit at Work
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 …
The FruitGuys 2023 Impact Report Is Here!
The numbers are in: In 2023, The FruitGuys clients purchased 384,000 boxes containing 20.6 million servings of fruit, vegetables, and snacks. Every single serving helped positively impact communities …
