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. 

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)

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 […]

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The 2023 Fruit Shoot is On!
The 2023 Fruit Shoot is On!

Start shooting that fruit porn and get those entries in. Click for rules.

Start shooting that fruit porn and get those entries in. Click for rules.

Start shooting that fruit porn and get those entries in. Click for rules.

Contest Rules
The Fruit Gardener
The Fruit Gardener

Our prize winning magazine is published bi-monthly. This is our current issue.

Its Table of Contents is here.

And click here for a sample issue from a previous year.

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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.