GROW YOUR OWN TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUITS

Background and Statement of Purpose

The Arizona Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 by Allison Yerger and her father, Dr. Fred Yerger. Fred has successfully cultivated a wide variety of tropical and subtropical fruit trees for years at his home in Scottsdale . From a small group of enthusiasts, their efforts have grown to a viable club whose purpose is to promote the culture and preservation in the home garden of rare plant species which have edible seeds, fruit, leaves, stems or roots not commonly grown commercially. Knowledge learned through club activities is public domain to be shared with the public for its benefit alone.

The Arizona Chapter meets at 7:00pm the second Thursday of every month at the Maricopa County Cooperative Extension Office, 4341 E. Broadway Road in Phoenix. Meetings are open to the public. A typical forum may include a speaker (either a guest or a club specialist), and/or other activities in which members share fruit and fruit produce, seeds, home propagated plants, personal experience and expertise in budding and grafting. There are occasional field trips and an annual national convention.

The Arizona Chapter, is an integral part of the California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. An excellent bimonthly magazine, The Fruit Gardener, features articles about the cultivation and care of rare fruits and subtropical plants in the home landscape. The local focus of the Arizona chapter is learning to cope with a somewhat hostile, low-desert climate in the Salt River Basin.

You are invited to attend our meetings.

Carl Denig, Chairman 480-730-8423 tropicalfruit@earthlink.net

Dick Gross, Secretary 623-939-4570 rkgross3@cox.net

visitors since January 1, 1998

Last Updated May 8, 2002
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