California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc.

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.

2023 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: January 21: San Diego, Monterey Bay and Orange County January 24: North San Diego January 28: San Joaquin February 4: Santa Clara February 11: South […]

The Fruit Gardener

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

Click here to get its Table of Contents.

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

If you — like the rest of the world — are buying more from Amazon these days…

…why not sign in to smile.amazon.com with your regular Amazon credentials and choose California Rare Fruit Growers as your designated charity? It doesn’t cost you a cent more and helps us give you more of what you joined us for (well, except for fruit exchanges and face to face meetings […]

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)

Youtube channel

New to our Youtube Channel: Let's Find Out!

Check out Kevin Hayakawa's videos on our YouTube Channel. Yes, we have entered the 21st century.

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Fruit Facts

Now a Wiki!

Now a Wiki! (Come on, you know this is how you first found us)

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Welcome to the CRFG website!

Oh, the fun we have!

Meetings

Field Trips

Fruit Tastings

Nurseries & Plant Providers

Scholarships and Grants