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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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
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
Balance feels like something we need these days. Between wild weather (in California at least) and banking instability, finding balance for farmers and the ag industry in general has been a bit of a …
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Filed Under: GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: 2022 impact report, balance, fighting hunger, GoodWorks, spring, strawberries, support farms, support small farms, sustainable agrculture, sustainable farming
By The FruitGuys on
As the holiday season approaches, we want to thank you for your business and share how The FruitGuys Donate-a-Crate program makes it easy to forward deliveries or purchase fruit to send to people in …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: Donate a Crate, fruit it forward, giving, giving back, GoodWorks, holiday donations, holidays, how to donate fruit
By Sheila Cassani on
As we reflect back on another challenging year, we are incredibly grateful for our clients and their positive impact on people and the planet through The FruitGuys GoodWorks Programs. Together in …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: 2021, 2021 Impact Report, b corp, Doing Good, donate-a-crate, Feed Hungry, fight hunger, GoodWorks, small farms, sustainable agriculture
By Pia Hinckle on
2020 was a terrible year and yet the generosity of our community allowed us to bring healthy food to nearly two million people: neighbors in need, frontline healthcare workers, and public school kids …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife, WorkLife Tagged With: 2020, 2020 Impact Report, b corp, Doing Good, donate-a-crate, family business, FareStart, fight hunger, Francis Ford Coppola, GoodWorks, how to fight hunger, how to help farms, Impact Report, North Beach Citizens, Philabundance, Project Open Hand, small farms
By The FruitGuys on
The FruitGuys has created a new non-profit project to support its long-standing hunger relief mission. The FoodWorks Fund, a fiscally-sponsored project of Community Initiatives, provides direct …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks, The FruitLife Tagged With: chris mittelstaedt, community initiatives, COVID-19 crisis, fighting hunger, food-banks, GoodWorks, helping small farms, hunger, hunger relief, local charity, non-profit, The FoodWorks Fund, The FruitGuys
By Sheila Cassani on
The FruitGuys donated more than 1.3 million servings of produce directly to those in need during 2015, a new record for the South San Francisco–based company. Nearly 700,000 pounds of fruit and …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks Tagged With: Barnraiser, fruitguys community fund, GoodWorks, pollinators, Small Grants Big Impacts
By Sheila Cassani on
Reduced carbon footprints and record numbers of pollinators are just a couple highlights of the early results farms are reporting as a result of the agriculture sustainability grants they received …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks Tagged With: community fund, GoodWorks, grantees, Grants, pollinators, soil
By Sheila Cassani on
The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, will award small American farms and agricultural nonprofits a total of $35,643 in 2015 for sustainability …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks Tagged With: agricultural nonprofit, community fund, farm grants, Farms, GoodWorks, local farms, sustainable, sustainable farming
By Sheila Cassani on
Since the company’s inception, giving back has been part of The FruitGuys mission. In 1998, we started donating fresh produce to local charities to provide healthy food to those who might not …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks Tagged With: annual report, GoodWorks, sustainability
By Miriam Wolf on
Like the snowy owl and the snail darter, foods can be endangered too. If farmers stop growing your favorite variety of tomato because it’s too hard to ship or too prone to pests, we come that much …
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Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: California, endangered, Farms, GoodWorks, gravenstein apples, sebastopol, SlowFoods, special
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
The college application process was not an easy one for me. I didn’t know where I wanted to go to school, and I had no idea what to say to encapsulate myself in an essay. I finally settled on telling …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks Tagged With: donate-a-crate, good works, GoodWorks, holiday donations, holidays, winter
By The FruitGuys on
You can tell from the photos that the owls are feeling very much at home in the owl boxes that The FruitGuys installed at Kauffman's Fruit Farm in Bird-in-Hand, PA. We hope that we will soon be …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, GoodWorks Tagged With: barn owls, girdling trees, GoodWorks, Kauffman's, Kauffman's Fruit Farm, mice, owl, owl box, owl cam, owls, voles
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