And when she wasn't cleaning inside and picking cotton, she would sometimes get paid extra or get to take home pecans. And she liked making pecan pie, and pecans are a kind of nut that is shaped much ...

Assorted fresh vegetables were on sale at the Farmers Market in downtown Fort Smith on Saturday in spite of the cooler temperatures. (River Valley Democrat-Gazette/Randal Seyler) Keith and Tiffany ...

While it was hard for me to understand why my sister would drag a burlap sack around a pecan tree to harvest pecans, Natalie called it her "therapy." I had suggested she just go to Bergeron’s, our ...

Historic Oak View County Park features a grove of pecan trees, which were originally planted in the early 1900s. And each fall, the grove is open to pecan picking or, rather, pecan picking up. Pecans ...

The faintest suspicion of fall is in the air. There's the occasional daytime high in the lower 90s, pumpkins and decorative gourds are showing up on supermarket shelves, and thoughts are turning to ...

Who isn’t nuts about pecans? Straight out of the shell raw, buttered, and toasted, made into butter pecan ice cream or baked into that sweet Southern delicacy known as pecan pie, pecans are powerfully ...

More and more people are reconsidering the role of meat in their diets by choosing to eat less or cut it out completely. But for those who still crave dishes traditionally anchored by animal protein, ...

Albany - Georgia pecan growers produce about $300 Million worth of pecans each year, and they're learning how to be even more successful. Georgia is the largest producer of pecans in the US, producing ...

Visceral memory, circa 1980. On the clearest of blue November days, I’m slowly circumnavigating Eastwoods Park, eyes on the ground, feet shuffling through fallen leaves, turning up enough pecans to ...

Recently, a friend gave me a bag of hand-picked pecans from his yard. The thoughtful gift was much appreciated and immediately flooded me with memories from my childhood of afternoons picking pecans ...