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Pecans
There are books about managing pecan farms, pecan technology,
cultivating pecan crops, crafting with pecan wood, pecan trees,
pecan migrate workers, and pecan recipes from soup to pies.
The pecan has been a favorite nut in America since President
George Washington requested them frequently.
The taste for pecans goes back even further than our first
president. Pecan is an Algonquin American Indian word
that translates as “all nuts requiring a stone to crack.”
Because the nuts grew wild, pecans became a staple food for
certain American Indian tribes.
Stacked end to end, it would take 11,624 pecans
to reach the top of New York’s Empire State Building.
If you wanted to reach the moon, you’d need 10 billion pecans.
There are more than 1,000 varieties of pecans.
Pecan shellers process more
than 150,000 pounds of pecans each day.
Pima College uses pecan shells for their cross-country
running surface.
The U.S. produces more than 80% of the world’s pecan crop,
or 324 million pounds a year.
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