Prothe's Pecans
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Prothe's Pecans
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Pecan, walnut meats. Custom cracking.
Native, improved varieties. In 1879, my great grandfather bought this 80-acre farm. Native pecan trees were growing here at the time. My grandfather, father, wife and I farmed the land through the years doing little with the pecan trees. We purchased the farm in 1960 from my aunts. In 1988, as I was clearing our 20 acre pasture, we noticed many young pecan trees growing along side the other brush. I decided to leave some and go to a grafting school being held in Paola. I had not heard of grafting trees but it sounded like a good idea. We attended the course and left with the scion wood to make the grafts. I grafted more of the trees each year. We planted another 40 acres to pecans the last few years and I am now grafting these to the improved varieties. We have two shakers that will clamp to the tree and shake the nuts to the ground, a harvester to gather the nuts, a cleaner to separate the nuts from the trash, and several crackers to crack them. Cracked pecans and halves, black walnut meats, and container grown pecan trees are sold at the farm. Custom cracking pecans is available.
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