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Toggle Navigation Home Join/Renew Chapters California Arizona Texas Affiliates Our Roots The Orchard Fruit Facts The Fruit Gardener CRFG Fruit List Fruit Cultural Data Fruit Specialists The Gallery Video Gallery Let’s Find Out! NurseryPlant Providers Tidbits Contact Us Search for: Search Button Search for: California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. pushing the limits and the range of fruit growing world wide Welcome to the CRFG website! With 22 chapters — not all in California — and members on every continent except Antarctica, we are the largest amateur fruit growing organization in the world. If you want to learn everything and anything about growing fruit in an environmentally responsible manner, this is where you want to be. Come on in! PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION. WE ARE NOT A BUSINESS AND DO NOT SELL FRUIT OR FRUIT TREES. Fruit Facts Fruit Facts Now a Wiki! Now a Wiki! Now a Wiki! (Come on, you know this is how you first found us) Learn More Urgent PSA: For all California Fig Growers Urgent PSA: For all California Fig Growers The first alarm was sounded on the ourfigs.com forum a year ago. Now the larvae of the Black Fig Fruit Fly (Silba adipata McAlpine) has been found from Santa Barbara south to at least Orange County. The photo above is from Santa Monica. If your unripe figs appear misshapen or […] Read more singingbird Click the bird to be taken to a performance of the great CRFG theme song, written by Emory Walton and performed by Michael Falcone. (Photo by Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash) The Fruit Gardener The Fruit Gardener Our prize winning magazine is published bi-monthly. This is our current issue. Read more 2024 Scion Exchanges 2024 Scion Exchanges The world-famous CRFG Scion Exchanges are once again about to begin. Please check the relevant chapter websites for location and times. Here are the dates we have so far: January 27: Monterey Bay. February 3: Santa Clara Valley Read more Oh, the fun we have! We have Meetings Jorge Ochoa, Instructor in Horticulture at Long Beach City College, gives the West Los Angeles Chapter a brilliant talk on Passionfruit. Most chapters have meetings every month or every other month. We have field trips Most chapters schedule field trips in alternation with their meetings.. Click Chapters in the Menu above for one near you. We exchange scion wood Every January and February, our famous scion exchanges are held at local chapters. There are generally demonstrations of various grafting techniques as well. Sharpen up your knife and create your frankentree We have fruit tastings The best way to know if a variety of fruit should be in your garden is to taste the fruit before buying the tree. Most chapter members share whatever is ripe at meetings. Hestia | Developed by...