Farm Steward

2012 GoodWorks

By Pia Hinckle on January 17, 2013

The FruitGuys has formed a new non-profit organization to promote sustainable agriculture practices for small farms, an evolution of the company’s Farm Steward Program, which has provided farmers with …

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A Fruitful Partnership Grows Roots to Educate Philly Youth

By Bridget Meigs on November 3, 2010

The FruitGuys Philadelphia team helped green urban West Philadelphia by sponsoring a fall planting at the Walnut Hill Community Farm through POP (Philadelphia Orchard …

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Tale of a Scientist Farmer

By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 19, 2010

Ed Magee spends his days thinking about sunlight. When he isn’t working on his 38-acre orchard of white peaches and nectarines in Vernalis, California, he’s in a lab studying the energy of …

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Good Fruit = GoodWorks

By The FruitGuys on March 4, 2010

The FruitGuys GoodWorks Project includes our Farm Steward and Community Outreach programs which have donated thousands of pieces of fruit to charitable organizations nationwide. Our Farm Steward …

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The Lessons of Nature

By Chris Mittelstaedt on February 1, 2010

When we look for lessons in life, it’s not often that we can say: “Hey, check with the slime mold.” However, in The New York Times science section, there was a story about how researchers in Japan …

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