Expanding Impact to More States in 2025
Since 2012, The FruitGuys Community Fund (TFGCF) has provided annual grants to support sustainability projects on small, independent American farms and through agricultural nonprofits. We believe [...]
Grant Opportunities for BIPOC-Led Farms in 2025
The FruitGuys Community Fund 2025 grant cycle is coming soon!! Grants up to $5,000 are available for agricultural nonprofits working on projects that advance sustainable and equitable food [...]
Coming Soon: Streamlined Application for 2025 Grant Awards Cycle
The FruitGuys Community Fund has been providing small grants with big impacts for small farms and their communities for more than a decade. In 2024, we awarded grants to twenty small farms and [...]
Announcing the 2024 Grant Cycle
The FruitGuys Community Fund 2024 grant cycle is underway for grant awards of up to $5,000 to small farms and agricultural nonprofits for projects that promote economic and environmental [...]
Which Farm Projects Will be Funded?
You can help decide which small farms sustainability projects receive grants in 2024. These small grants (up to $5,000) have big impacts.r.Β Join The FruitGuys Community Fund 2024 Volunteer Grant [...]
Small Farms, Big Impacts: Announcing the 2023 Grant Cycle
Small farms are critical stewards of the land and key to creating a more equitable food system. Each spring, The FruitGuys Community Fund awards grants of up to $5,000 to small farms and [...]
Women Growing Change: The Class of 2022 FruitGuys Community Fund Grantees
A diverse group of women farmers dominate the 2022 class of grantees for The FruitGuys Community Fund, the nonprofitβs 10th year of providing grants to small farms and agricultural nonprofits [...]
Agritourism: Vacationing on a Farm
If youβre planning a summer getaway, consider booking a farm stay, for a fun, unique, and rewarding vacation experience.
Our Five Favorite Food Documentaries
These films shed light on the realities of food production in the United States and what we as consumers can do to improve it.
2017 Census: A Story of Struggle and Sustainability in U.S. Agriculture
As the American landscape continues to change, farms and ranches across the country face incredible challenges, which have led to fewer farms, smaller farms, and lower incomes.
Growing Up in the Garden: The Benefits of Gardening With Kids
Along with providing fresh vegetables and saving money, growing a garden together can benefit your children in a number of ways.
Finalists: 2019 Grant Cycle
Itβs hard to believe, but weβre already partway through the 2019 grant cycle. This year, weβve chosen 21 finalists from the 318 letters of intent we received. Our review committee carefully [...]
Rebuilding From the Ground Up
From the Ground Up Farms, one of our 2016 grantees, found itself vulnerable and exposed, as it sat in the path of the deadly Camp Fire that blazed through Northern California last November. [...]
Straight From the Farmer: 2018 Grantee Videos Updates
2018 was an incredible year for The FruitGuys Community Fund. With the help of our dedicated volunteers and those who made financial contributions, we were able to provide grants for 13 [...]
Announcing The FruitGuys Community Fund 2019 Grant Cycle for Small Farm Sustainability
Each spring, The FruitGuys Community Fund provides grants of up to $5,000 to small American farms for sustainability projects that have large positive impacts on the environment, local food [...]
Volunteer for Our 2019 Grant Review
Weβre seeking volunteers to join our annual grant review committee. In 2018, we awarded a total of $47,534 to 13 small American farms. These grants gave farmers the opportunity to tackle [...]
Women Who Nourish Us: Fly Girl Farm Tour
On a beautiful fall day, The FruitGuys and Fly Girl Farm, along with Kitchen Table Advisors, gathered an intimate group of friends and community partners on the California coast for a fun day on [...]
2018 Grantee Highlight: 47 Daisies
Weβre always thrilled to highlight our amazing grantees, including one of this yearβs winners, 47 Daisies, a small agricultural nonprofit in Vassalboro, ME. They grow vegetables, fruit, [...]
Eight Edible Perennial Crops You Can Plant This Fall
Spring may be the busiest planting season, but fall is also a wonderful time to add to your garden. Some perennials thrive when planted in fall. The soil is still warm, thereβs less disease and [...]
10 Ways to Ditch Plastic in Food and Farming
When you picture farming, plastic probably isnβt on your mind. However, plastic has become a huge part of modern agriculture. Itβs part of the entire farming process, from the plastic trays [...]
2016 Grantee Highlight: Two Boots Farm
In Hampstead, MD, Two Boots Farm grows organic produce and cut flowers on one acre. In 2016, this family-run operation received a $5,000 FruitGuys Community Fund grant to increase their seedling [...]
Sustainable Textiles: Modern Fiber Farmers
Sustainable farming encompasses more than food, and fiber farmers are one group thatβs often overlooked. Although cheaply made synthetics dominate the textile market these days, there are still [...]
2016 Grantee Highlight: FARM Davis
Each and every FruitGuys Community Fund grantee amazes us with their dedication to their community and the land. FARM Davis is no exception. Theyβre a nonprofit community farm in Davis, CA, that [...]
Homegrown: 7 Natural and Nutritious Indigenous Foods
Despite being central to our everyday survival, food is something thatβs often missing from our history books. The gathering, domestication, and cultivation of foods has played a large role in [...]
2017 Grantee Highlight: Sarvodaya Farm
One of the best parts of our work at The FruitGuys Community Fund is seeing how the farmers make changes with their grants. Recently we got the chance to catch up with Rishi of Sarvodaya Farm, a [...]
The Deal With No-Till
At The FruitGuys Community Fund we look to fund ecologically sustainable projects. One of the projects that we’ve been proud to support is the transition to no-till agriculture. No-till [...]
A Guide to Seed Starting
Starting your own plants from seed can be one of the most satisfying parts of gardening. It’s amazing to watch something that was once just a speck turn into pounds of food under your care. [...]
A Sustainable Future: 2018 Farm Grants Awarded
2018 Farm Grantees Small Farms Awarded Funds to Implement Sustainable Agriculture Projects The FruitGuys Community Fund is excited to announce the 2018 class of farm grantees. This year, we [...]
Farm Diversification for Sustainability
DIVERSE DECISIONS Anyone who runs their own business knows that itβs important to find sustainable income streams. One way farmers can look to grow their business is through farm diversification. [...]
Colchester Farm: 2015 Grantee
Colchester Farm Community Supported Agriculture is a nonprofit farm based on 15 acres of land in Georgetown, Maryland. They grow a wide range of produce and also boast robust apprenticeship and [...]
Etiquette at theΒ Farmers Market
Supporting LocalΒ Growers Farmers markets are great. Itβs a way we all can find natural, locally-sourced produce that supports local farmers. At The FruitGuys Community Fund we get to interact [...]
Water Conservation: Helping Farmers Manage a Precious Resource
Californiaβs drought has made headline news across the world over the last several years. Water conservation has been our mantra. And it looks like itβs working! In March 2016, Californians cut [...]
Join Us At the 2016 California Small Farm Conference
Sacramento March 6, 7Β & 8 It’s almost time for the 2016 California Small Farm Conference! We’re looking forward to this annual event, gathering together with other sustainability [...]
Barnraiser Project Launches Monday, Feb. 22!!
At The FruitGuys Community Fund we’re putting the finishing touches on our Barnraiser Project, a crowdfunding site dedicated to sustainable food and farming.Β This year, we are looking to [...]
Small Grants, Big Impacts
Grantee farms progress on solar, soil, and pleasing pollinators. Reduced carbon footprints and record numbers of pollinators are just a couple highlights of the early results farms are reporting [...]
From Seed to Need: Grants Awarded to Small Sustainable Farms
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 [...]
Fresh Dirt
From bats and bees to soil and hedgerows, The FruitGuys Community Fund Class of 2014 reports on its projects The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Community [...]
Fresh Dirt: Harvest Season Updates
For small farms, harvest season brings to fruition months of thought, care, and toil. It marks the end of summer and is a time to celebrate the results of hard work. The recipients of The [...]
Spotlight: Bountiful Hope Farms, 2014 grantee
Bountiful Hope Farms in Monroe, WI, was awarded a FruitGuys Community Fund grant of $2,750 in April 2014 for the installation of a drip irrigation system, hoop house construction, and printing of [...]
