We proudly source more than 40 percent of the produce for our Farm-to-School Program from local California farms! Many of our farm partners are from multi-generation farming families, and several are women, BIPOC, or from other marginalized communities.
The FruitGuys has been building long-term relationships with California farms since 1998.
Below, you’ll find the stories of just a few of our many farm partners. We’re proud to call these folks our friends, and to work with them to bring your students the freshest, healthiest, most beautiful fruits and veggies around.
Stehley Farms Organics is a 278-acre organic farm that has been in the Stehley family since 1964. Brothers Jerome and Noel Stehly run the orchards today, and they supply The FruitGuys with delicious organic citrus including pucker-you-up lemons and sweet Valencia oranges.
Kingsburg Orchards is owned and operated by a fifth-generation farming family. They partner with other farmers to grow, pack, and ship more than 200 varieties of apples and stone fruits (including white nectarines, apple pears, and apriums—a plum/apricot hybrid) in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
Blake and Lisa Carlson have grown stone fruit on their family farm in Kingsburg since 1984, and many of their workers have been with them since the beginning. They’ve supplied The FruitGuys with juicy nectarines, peaches, and plums since 2007.
The Olson family has farmed in Kingsburg, California, for an impressively long time—since 1889! The Olsons have used organic practices since day one (since before we even used the word organic!) and today their farm grows at least seventy-five varieties of certified organic stone fruit, including peaches, plums, apricots, and nectarines.
Kings River Packing dates back to 1853 when farmers William and Mary Hazelton settled in California’s Central Valley. Eight generations on, the family is still growing, packing, and shipping organic and conventional citrus, including fun varieties like Raspberry Oranges ® and Minneola tangelos.
John Kolling farms more than 100 acres of organic apples at Appleseed Farms in Sebastopol, California. He specializes in growing Gravenstein apples—an endangered heritage variety listed in the Ark of Taste. The FruitGuys celebrates Gravensteins each year in our Gravenstein Apple Box!
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