Tagges' Famous Fruit

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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 various 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.

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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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