This autumn marks the third harvest at Vaughn Family Pecan Farm since “the nut man’s” death, but his undeniable passion for pecans has kept his unusual project and intimate family business ...
Pecans have long been vital to the farm’s mission and its survival via a mail-order nut-and-candy operation that ships Southern delights, from hickory-roasted pecans to blueberry spreads ...
Along about May the nuts begin to form, in close-growing clusters at the tips of ... liquid—the substance that will eventually become a pecan. As the kernel takes on shape and size, a papery ...
He works on the farm with his son, shaking the trees until pecans fall out. Each one produces several hundred pounds of pecans. "We just sweep them up, put them in big trailers, and there is a ...