Harvesting Pecans & Apples; Pecan Sales Start Nov. 18

   Pecan harvest started on Sat. Nov. 7, but harvested pecans must be cleaned and dried for 7 to 10 days before cracking.  My husband Bill is now very busy harvesting our 2026 pecan crop.  Each morning he uses our mechanical trunk shaker to shake the nuts from a tree row to the ground, then each afternoon he uses our mechanical harvester to scoop up the nuts with rubber fingers.

After shaking nuts from a tree row to the ground this morning, Bill uses our mechanical harvester to scoop up the nuts with rubber fingers, while leaves and debris go out the back of the harvester. Painted bands on pecan trees identify different pecan varieties with different colors.

   Each evening he runs the harvested pecans through our field cleaner, then our stationary cleaner in our pecan building, to remove debris.  Bill loads the cleaned pecans into burlap sacks holding 65 to 70 pounds each, and lets them dry for 7 to 10 days.  Then he cracks them using our pecan cracking machine, which removes 2/3 of the loose shell fragments. 

   We'll have harvested, cracked pecans for sale starting about Nov. 18.  There will be fewer nuts to harvest this year, so pecans may sell out for the season by Feb. or March 2027.  

   We're keeping pecan prices, including sales tax, the same as they've been for the past 6 years.  We sell cracked pecans in 4-pound bags, which are over 75% pecan kernels and under 25% shell fragments.  Each bag has the equivalent of 6 pounds of in-shell pecans, and when you pick out the kernels, you get 3 pounds or more of nutmeats.  Each bag costs $19.70 + sales tax, so $20.00 including sales tax.

   I'm still harvesting 'Gold Rush' apples, and we have many newly-harvested #1 'Gold Rush' apples for sale, plus some #2 'Gold Rush' apples, packed for sale and stored in our cooler.  'Gold Rush' apples keep amazingly well for fresh eating when kept in the fridge, in the plastic bags I pack them in.  This variety gets sweeter in cold storage, as starches convert into sugars, yet retains its crisp texture for 10 months.  I'll keep harvesting 'Gold Rush' apples until late Nov., and we'll have them for sale from now until about June 2027.

We have many newly-harvested #1 'Gold Rush' apples like these for sale, and I'll harvest more 'Gold Rush' apples each day for the next 3 to 4 weeks.

   'Gold Rush' apple prices are $1.63 per pound + sales tax for #1 fruit with no damage.  I harvest and pack apples directly into bags in boxes that I weigh to 20 pounds, so if you get a 20-pound box of #1 'Gold Rush' apples you save $1.00.  We also have some nice #2  'Gold Rush' apples, with some surface scarring but no internal damage, that sell for just $1.28 per pound + sales tax.

   As always, we take cash or checks for payment, but NO credit cards or debit cards, and no phone "apps".  We don't use a smart phone, and have no phone line to the sales building.  So please bring your checkbook or enough cash to cover the amount of fruit you want to buy.  Thanks. 

   From now until Dec. 15, we're open the hours shown in the left sidebar.  These open hours give me time to harvest tree fruits before customers start coming each day.   If I'm out harvesting fruit when you arrive, ring the bell on the sales building VERY LOUDLY.  When I'm in the sales building, please do NOT ring the bell.  Thanks.