Cracked Pecans & 'Gold Rush' Apples Great for Holiday Baking & Eating

   We still have a good supply of both 'Kanza' pecans and selections from Bill's pecan breeding program for sale.  All these pecans have large nuts, thin shells and great taste, and I give taste samples.

   Pecans store well for 3-4 months in a fridge, and for over 6 years in a freezer.  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 $19.32 + sales tax.

We have selections from Bill's pecan breeding program (bags on left) & 'Kanza' pecans (bags on right) for sale. The plastic boxes show what the cracked pecans look like inside the paper bags.

    We also have a good supply of harvested #1 and #2 'Gold Rush' apples, packed and ready for sale in our cooler.  #1 'Gold Rush' apples keep in top condition for fresh eating for 10 to 11 months in a fridge when stored in the plastic bags I packed them in.  This apple variety gets sweeter after a month or two in cold storage, as starches convert into sugars.  #2 'Gold Rush' apples keep for 3 to 4 months in a fridge, and are great for cutting into slices for fresh eating, baking and making apple butter.

'Gold Rush' apples turn bright yellow when ready to eat. We'll have harvested 'Gold Rush' apples for sale until about May 2025.

   Harvested apples sell for $1.45 per pound + sales tax for #1 fruit with no damage.  A 20-pound box of #1 fruit costs $28.02 + sales tax, and you save $1.00.  We have some very nice #2 fruit that sell for $1.16 per pound + sales tax. 

   We've now harvested almost all 'Gold Rush' apples, and I'll harvest the few left on the trees on Tues. and Wed. Nov. 26 and 27.  We now have 70 large bins of 'Gold Rush' apples stored in our larger cooler in our pecan building.  I'll sort apples out of these bins all winter, into 20-pound trays for sale, so we'll have 'Gold Rush' apples for sale until about mid-May 2025.

   Projected sales dates for all our crops are shown in the sidebar at left under Crop Sales Seasons.  That also tells which crops we sell harvested, and which crops we sell pick-your-own.

   We'll be closed Thanksgiving Day, but open our regular Fall Open Hours (see sidebar at left) every other day until Dec. 15.  From Dec. 16 to June 14 we're open by appointment, which means to phone 620-597-2450 a day ahead and leave a message on our answering machine with your name, day and time you'll come, and what you want to buy.

   As always, we take cash or checks for payment, but NO credit cards or debit cards, and no "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.