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Arizona Chapter - California Rare Fruit Growers

Mission Statement

California Rare Fruit Growers Inc.
Arizona Chapter

The Arizona chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. (CRFG) is a non-profit club organized in 1996 by Scottsdale Physician, Dr. Fred Yerger and his daughter, Allison, a landscaper and a student of horticulture at Arizona State University. Doctor Yerger successfully cultivated a wide variety of tropical and subtropical fruit trees for years at his home in Scottsdale. His desire to share the experience and knowledge evolved into the Arizona CRFG Chapter. Its purpose is to promote the culture and preservation in the home garden of rare plant species having edible seeds, fruit, leaves, roots or stems not commonly grown commercially.

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.

A Subtropical Demonstration Garden at the Cooperative Extension on Broadway Drive is proof of the group’s convictions and skills. Banana, Papaya, Mango, Pineapple, White Sapote, Bamboo, Loquat, Sugar Cane, Longan and Guava trees grow happily there in apparent harmony with a desert climate at odds with their native habitat. If exotic gardening, learning by trial and error and sharing the knowledge appeals to you, the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers could be the route to your own subtropical garden.

You are invited to attend our meetings.

Officers & Board Members

Patrick Hallman - President
Stewart Robertson - Vice President
Dick Gross - Secretary
Joe Corabi - Treasurer
Jacqueline Janes - Membership Co-Chair and Webmaster
Robert Messenger - Membership Co-Chair
Jenny Hom - Program

Board

Bob Becker
Lorin Lafoe
David Rosenberg
Chad Mayer