"[2] Bond was born in Elbert County, Georgia and was raised on a 102–acre cotton farm that also grew wheat, cantaloupe, watermelon, sweet potatoes, and food crops for the family's consumption.

[1][3] He graduated from Bowman High School in 1945, and then attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College where his uncle was a professor.

[1][4] During the summers, he worked at a state agricultural experimental station in Tifton, Georgia that was studying the impact of insecticides on tobacco.

[4][3] Once Bond completed his college degree in May 1949, he advanced to the position of agricultural extension officer in Atkinson County, Georgia where they farmed hogs, tobacco, and pine trees for turpentine.

[4][3] From 1952 to 1995, Bond worked with the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation which operated from offices on Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, North Carolina.

[8] As the assistant to the general manager, Bond traveled across the five-state service area, visiting tobacco farmers and making presentations about the benefits of quotas and price support.

[2] In 1975, Cary residents voted to elect their town's mayor directly and for an expanded four-year term.

[1][8] Bond oversaw the change from a "sleepy little Raleigh bedroom community into its explosive expansion into a small city…'"[2] His strategy was to encourage and manage growth, while still maintaining the town that was a desirable place to live.

[4] Bond served on the board North Carolina State University's N.C Agricultural Foundation and co-chaired a campaign that raised more than $10 million.

[2][4] He also served on North Carolina Credit Union Advisory Board, the Wake County Long-Range Hospital Planning Committee, and the Field Crops Advisory Committee of the Federal Land Bank in Columbia, South Carolina.

[4] When Bond retired, he was honored for his 43 years of work with the tobacco industry by a roast at the Crabtree Valley Mall Marriott Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina.

[4] The Fred G. Bond Scholarship Endowment was created when a national steering committee from the tobacco and agricultural industry raised $600,000 in his honor.

[5] The Bond Endowment provides scholarships for undergraduate students at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University.

[5][11] Opening June 1, 1985, the Fred G. Bond Metro Park has 310 acres and is "an oasis in the middle of town".