Fruit By The Bay | CSA

SUSTAINABLE

FRUITGREENSOLIVESCHEESEBUTTERFRUIT

DELIVERED
SUSTAINABLY

EAST BAY

HOW DOES IT WORK?

So,

1. Pick what you're interested in

Choose your order size, pay online, and cancel anytime. We keep the process as simple as possible.

Flexible

Choose which day you want your delivery, customize what you do and don't want in your box.

2. We choose the best produce

Every week we pick out what we think is the best fruit & produce available from our partners at the SF farmer’s markets.

Local & Seasonal

Our produce comes from California. Always.

Quality-first

We put quality and taste first. Quality also means we focus on how it is grown ~ we buy organic whenever possible.

3. We deliver to your door

Our team personally delivers your fruit to your home or office. *We take precautions to avoid contact during Covid-19.

Low Emissions

No long-distance shipping of products ever. Deliveries by bicycle, electric vehicle, or even by foot.

Low Waste

We deliver in re-usable delivery boxes that we pick up each week.

Residential Delivery

We’re bringing the best the bay has to offer right to your door. Get ready for the highest quality fruit, greens, and cheeses, all from local california farms and crafters.

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Business Delivery

Your team deserves the best. Our business box will take your workplace to the next level with fruit and snacks that are nutritious, delicious, and always local.

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OUR FARMERS

Meet

Miramonte Farms

The Teresi and Rasmussen families have a long history of farming in the Santa Clara valley, mostly growing prunes, apricots and cherries. Phil Teresi and Grace Rasmussen first met at Farm Bureau events for local young farmers and ranchers. They reconnected 10 years later after each had been involved with a handful of other farming and food related ventures. For the past 20 years they have been farming 12 acres in San Benito County. They are most proud of their dry farmed tomatoes and fruit, saving water and producing flavor-packed organic produce.

Galpin Farms

Lisa and Anthony Galpin are second-generation farmers in California's Central Valley. Based in Reedley, the Galpins grow a variety of stone fruit, citrus and grapes, mainly for a handful of farmers' markets in Southern California. Their family has also been a staple at the famous Alemany Farmers' Market (just a few blocks from the Good Eggs Food Hub!) since the late 70's.

M. A. Farms

Mohammed Afzal has been farming for over 30 years. In 2000 he started M. A. Farms, which grows seasonal varieties of stone fruits, pomegranates, persimmons, citrus, and limited quantities of mulberries. M. A. Farms specializes in more than six varieties of asian pears - Mohammed was one of the first farmers to start growing them in the USA 30 years ago, so the quality of his fruit reflects this experience.

Triple Delight Berries

Since 1997, the Sorensens have been selling their hand-picked blueberries at farmers markets throughout the Bay Area and the Central Valley as well as at their road side stand right at their farm located just south of Fresno, California. You can always count on Triple Delight Blueberries for that "straight from the field" taste.

Stepladder Creamery

Stepladder Ranch & Creamery is home to our dairy and creamery located on the Central Coast of California. We make small-batch cheeses with milk from our herd of LaMancha goats and during the goat milk off-season from November through March, we make cow's milk cheeses from milk we source locally from the dairy science program at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.

Bernard Farms

Vince and Vicki Bernard began farming their land in 1979 and have been bringing their produce to market since 1980. Their land is farmed sustainably by relying on the use of beneficial insects, avoiding the use of synthetic pesticides or herbicides, and the use of drip irrigation systems. Their soil is fertilized with seaweed and urea and mushroom compost is added for an added hit of nitrogen compound – an element that fruit trees crave.

Brokaw Farms

Brokaw Ranch Company specializes in intensively farmed avocado, specialty citrus, and subtropical tree-fruit production. The Brokaws endeavor to consistently produce plentiful crops of top-quality fruit while being good stewards of all resources: soil, water, and people. They try to avoid using synthetic chemicals for pest control but do use them when organic control methods are not effective.

Country Rhodes Family Farm

Country Rhodes Farm is truly a family farm. The property has been in the Rhodes Family for generations, and David and I moved back to the farm in 2000. David drives a transport truck while I manage the farm. The Rhodes Family is involved in many aspects of the regional and local community.

Rainbow Orchards

Rainbow Orchards is a 3rd generation family farm based in Camino, California. Our Apple Hill℠ farm has provided the finest mountain grown fruit since 1977 – for over 40 years! We grow the best apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, and blueberries you’ve ever tasted.

Kalkat Nut and Fruit

Kalkat Nut & Fruit produces, dehydrates, and packs delicious plums and prunes. They've been established as one of the best in California since 2013.

Yerena Berry Farm

After growing strawberries for Driscoll with their parents for 12 years, Apolinar and Gilberto decided to lease their own farm. They began in 1982 growing conventionally, but in response to market demand converted five trial acres to organic. The organic fruit sold so well they eventually decided to transition the farm to organic.

Our Fruit

It’s no secret that California produces a sizable chunk of fruit, vegetables, nuts and dairy. Its temperate climate, matched with long seasons and rich soil give California an agricultural edge, providing the U.S. with nearly half of its produce. We’re pretty lucky to have access to fresh produce, and we’re even luckier that it’s the best in the nation (we may be biased, but the numbers don’t lie).

The Bay Area serves as a bridge between Northern and Southern Californian agriculture. Things here aren’t too hot, or too cold, and our fruit is just right. So why is it that retailers still sell fruit and vegetables imported from far away regions?

Fruit by the Bay believes in keeping our fruit and vegetables local and fresh, which is why we source our produce from farmers local to California, and only ever deliver what is in season. We handpick our produce each week at local farmers markets in and around San Francisco, ensuring a variety of fresh berries, stone fruit, citrus, veggies, and snacks.

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Our Delivery

What makes Fruit by the Bay special is not just the quality & local origin of our fruit, but it’s also the way that it gets from the farmer’s market to you. While some might have said there’s no way you could deliver 1 metric ton of fruit by bicycle, we've proven otherwise. Small eletric delivery vehicles? You bet. Our experimentation with no-emissions vehicles speaks to the hyper-local nature of our service, and to our dedication to keeping our service low-impact by reducing emissions everywhere possible.

Our delivery service is pretty simple and involves just three steps:
1. Fruit pickup from the SF & East Bay farmer’s markets on Saturday & Sunday
2. Fruit sorting, where we divide up what we’ve bought into the delivery boxes for each of our customers.
3. Delivery to your door. When possible we deliver by bicycle, to keep emissions low.

All of our deliveries are made using our completely reusable fruit crates. Every time we come by, we’ll pick up the previous empty crate, and drop off a new one, filled with your fruit & produce for the week.

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Our Team

Fruit by the Bay’s founder, Christopher Panaiti leads the day-to-day operations. Christopher got his start in the fruit delivery business by working with and learning from Konstantin Kosov, the founder of Spirit Fruit, our sister company serving SF. Christopher spends every weekend out at the markets discoverings what's new, ripe, and delicious that week.

Shenandoah leads our efforts in Berkeley in addition to working on just about everything that helps get the fruit from the farmers to you. Plus, we're always looking for new partners to join our team. We run our fruit sorting operations out of our commercial kitchen space in Oakland.

Fruit by the Bay takes inspiration from some of the other famous Bay Area co-ops and collectives like Arizmendi – we’re striving to build a team of co-workers and co-owners rather than just employees. Interested in helping out? Get in touch with our contact form at the bottom of the page.

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