Our story

interesting. After discovering tamarillo products 10 years ago at a café whilst having lunch in Silverdale, we experimented with a number of tamarillo recipes and spent the next 5 years validating our products at weekly Farmers Markets throughout Northland. The demand was unprecedented so we surveyed the market and quickly learned that there were very few tamarillo products on retail shelves and the tangy taste of tamarillo was keenly sought after to complement salads, seafood, cheeses and meats. For the Love Of Tams

When retailers approached us wanting to stock our products we realised there was an opportunity here for a tamarillo product to enter the artisan food market commercially, so we formed the Tamarillo Cooperative Ltd, under the brand “For the love of Tams", with five other local growers to provide us with a solid infrastructural base and to be sure that we had a consistent supply of the specific variety of tamarillo to produce the very best prod...