Still Many Cracked Pecans & Harvested Apples

   We hope everyone had a joyful Christmas.  Our son Michael and I just got back from our trip to Olympic National Park in Washington state, late on Dec. 24.  We had a peaceful and joyful Christmas at home with Bill, who'd stayed home to crack and sell pecans over the past 10 days.

We saw this double rainbow from the porch of the Quinalt River Inn on Dec. 19, after hiking through the Quinalt rain forest to several waterfalls.

   Now I'm back to sorting apples, as I'll do all winter and spring, into 20-pound trays for sale.  We'll have harvested 'Enterprise' apples for sale until about mid-June 2026, and 'Gold Rush' apples for sale until about mid-July 2026.   

   For the next 2 months, we also still have many freshly-harvested, cracked pecans for sale, both 'Kanza' pecans and selections from my husband Bill's pecan breeding program.  All these pecans have large nuts, thin shells and great taste, and I give taste samples. 

For the next 2 months, we have 'Kanza' pecans (bags on left) & selections from Bill's pecan breeding program (bags on right)  for sale. The plastic boxes show what the cracked pecans look like inside the paper bags.

   Since we had such a large apple crop this year, our larger cooler in our pecan building will still be full of apples until June or July 2026.   For the last 2 years we had smaller apple crops, and got all apples out of our larger cooler by mid-February, so we could put pecans in that larger cooler before the weather warmed.  This year, we'll have to sell some 1800-pound super sacks of pecans to the pecan cracking plant in early Jan.

   We'll only keep a few bags of cracked pecans in refrigerators, so we'll likely sell out of pecans by early March 2026, as shown at left under Crop Sales Seasons.  If you'll want to buy more pecans before mid-Nov. 2026, come this week or in Jan. or early Feb. 2026.

   Our winter/spring open hours started Dec. 16 and go until June 14.  During this time, 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.  You can make an appointment to arrive here between 10 a.m. and 11:45 a.m., or between 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Sat.

   We'll be closed Jan. 1 for New Year's Day, but you can make an appointment for any other day, Monday to Sat.  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.

   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. 

   Harvested apples sell for $1.48 per pound + sales tax for #1 fruit with no damage.  I sort and pack apples into bags in boxes that I weigh to 20 pounds, so if you get a 20-pound box of #1 apples you save $1.00.  We also have some nice #2 fruit, with some surface scarring but no internal damage, that sells for just $1.18 per pound + sales tax.