Tagges' Famous Fruit (CSA)

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Thayne and Cari Tagges' Famous Fruit
3431 South Highway 89
Perry, Utah, 84302
and Salt Lake City, Utah
Phone: (801) 755-8031
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Local First Listing

Tagges' Famous Fruit owns 70 acres of Orchards and Farm land located in Perry and Willard, Utah.
We grow a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables and sell them at locations in the Salt Lake City area.

Tagges' Famous Fruit is famous for our "Brigham City Peaches." The climate and environment is perfect to grow 21 different variety of peaches.

We also grow sweet cherries, apricots, pears, plumbs, apples and most row crop vegetables.

As older farmers were selling for home development we were buying and planting trees. We work hard in the spring, summers and fall and play hard in the winter. We are able to pick the fruit riper so that it tastes better because we don't have to ship very far.

CSA

This is our first year setting up a Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA) Program and we would love for you to join with us in the adventures of farming.

We want to develop a long lasting relationship with you. We love to farm and in order for us to continue we need the support from the community. This summer will be so fun because you, as a CSA member, will receive the “best of the best” that we grow. You will receive the first fruits and many varieties that we do not sell to anyone else. For example, Thayne will finally be picking the four varieties of white peaches, that he planted four years ago. You will get the first taste of this delicious white flesh peach.

Why we’re so excited to start a CSA program:

1. We want to get to know you and we want you to get to know us literally through the fruits of our labor.
2. We grow fruit!!! We have many varieties of Cherries (5 varieties), Apricots (6), Brigham City Peaches (28), Plumbs (5), Prunes, Willard Bay Blackberries (3), Raspberries (1) and Apples (4).
3. We also have amazing row crops to make your mouth water. They include our famous tomatoes, peas, beans, peppers, cucumbers, beets, cantaloupe, watermelon, sweet salt and pepper corn, summer and winter squash, pumpkins and some of Thayne’s other wonderful veggie surprises.
4. And on top of all that, we are very generous. We want you to be our farming friend for many years to come. In addition to providing you with a very impressive box full of fresh fruits and vegetables – since we grow our own, sometimes we have so much picked that we will add the extra in your order.

Here’s How It Works

As a CSA Share Holder you will receive a specially packed box of fresh fruits and vegetable each week, for 15 weeks. We will start the week of July 4th and continue until the week of October 10th, 2010.

Boxes in July and early August will not have as many varieties of fruits and vegetables due to the Utah growing season, but in August and especially September your membership box will overflow with different varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables grown on our farm.

CSA Share Pricing

Each HALF share membership feeds 2 adults and is $275.00. Depending on the time of the summer you will receive anywhere from 3 to 10 different varieties of fruit and vegetables each week.

For a greater harvest, order a FULL share membership for $545.00. We promise if you order a full share you will have a bountiful supply of Tagge's best produce.

Early Frost Special - Extended to April 15th

If you sign up before April 15, 2010, you will receive a discount on your share membership.  For a half share you will pay $255.00 and for a full share only $495.00.

Our CSA Pick-up Locations

Additional CSA items

We have some great produce that you can freeze or preserve and enjoy in the winter months. We will also give advice to help you do it right. I have a great recipe for frozen creamed salt and pepper corn that will be great at Thanksgiving time. Items will include but not limited to tomatoes, peaches, beans, apples, pears, salt and pepper corn, potatoes, onions winter squash and garlic.
Try it you will like it.

• Canning or freezing items Share $250.00
• Tagge's Famous Fruit CSA Hat $9.95

Become a CSA Sponsor

We would love to add other drop off locations. If you would like to be one of our special CSA sponsors, all you need to do is have at least ten friends join in with you and we will deliver your membership boxes to your chosen location. And as a CSA sponsors, you will receive your membership at a discount.
 

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Tagge's Famous Fruit Stands

Find locally grown produce, honey, jam and salsa at Tagges' Famous Fruit stands during the season at the following Salt Lake City locations:
(click address to see map)

Thayne and Cari Tagges' Famous Fruit can also be found during the season at
Farmers Markets located at:

Tagge's Famous Fruit History

By 1995 the Tagge's had six fruit stands. It was then that Cari suggested they pick up some peaches from Brigham City to sell at their stands as well. They met Paul Sumida who owned a fruit stand on Highway 89 (Fruit Way). They would purchase peaches from him each day and sell them at their stands. Thayne and Paul became friends and the next year Paul asked Thayne to buy his 38-acre orchard. Paul said he would work with Thayne for one year and teach him how to farm. Thayne quit Peat, Marwick and became a full time farmer. They bought the orchard in 1997 and changed their business name to Thayne and Cari Tagge’s Famous Fruit.

Now that the Tagge’s had all this fruit being grown Cari had to add more fruit stands. In 1998 Bear Lake Raspberries were struggling because of a plant virus, so the Tagges bought 10 more acres across the street in Perry to grow raspberries and blackberries.

In 2003 Thayne purchased the 30-acre Perry family farm in Willard. The Perry family wanted to sell it to someone who would use it to farm and not build houses. Since then the Tagges have planted over 2500 trees on that property.

The Tagge’s fruit stands have gone through many changes throughout the years. We used to be able to pull up to a location without a business license and sell. We have hired many teenagers, college students, and moms to help us sell each summer. Our season went from three weeks each summer to a hectic four months of selling. Thayne knows how to fix tractors, prune, thin, fertilize and this summer just put in a drip irrigation system on 28 acres of our land.

Learning to farm has been bittersweet. IT IS A LOT OF WORK. Thayne and Cari work around 80 hours each week during the harvest. Thayne has to water in the middle of the night and load trucks at 3:30 some mornings. We plant seeds in our green house in March and then plant over 12,000 tomato plants and other row crops in May. But the joy of farming, to Thayne, is working the land. He loves working hard and literally seeing the fruits of his labor. He will call Cari at dusk while he is cultivating and tell her how beautiful Willard Bay is when the sun is setting. They both have a crazy work ethic and are proud that all four of their children know how to work hard and will finish the job no matter how dirty or how long it takes.

A family business is fun, but sometimes you are together too much and take your pressure out on each other. Our children are amazing, and help us do what ever is needed. It has been so rewarding to grow our own produce and have our customers appreciate the work that we do. We have many loyal customers that have bought from us for the last 25 years. We are proud to be a first generation farming family.

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