Growing up in rural McClure, Ill., we always had pecans on our trees at home. Many years ago my parents had two pecan trees grafted to grow large paper shell pecans. Many old-timers say you will ...

Carya is a North American genus of tree first recognized by English naturalist Thomas Nuttall in his work “The Genera of North American Plants” (1818). The ancient Greek meaning of Carya, is “nut.” ...

LUTHER, Oklahoma -- Despite the extreme heat and subsequent drought of the summer, one Oklahoma farmer is preparing for a bountiful harvest. "The heat and drought was hard on everything, trees, ...

One of my Christmas memories includes sitting at the kitchen table shelling pecans. My grandfather taught me the one to one method-eat one, put one in the bowl-much to my grandmother's dislike.

Pecans are truly a U.S. of A. product. They were grown and eaten by American Indians in the Mississippi Valley long before European settlers decided to stick pecans in a pie. Indians used pecans and ...