Brackenridge Notes 1

I'm beginning to feel like if I wrote about Pecans, I'd be taken more seriously. And then, from being a Pecan expert, to taking over the world!

IGA's $5 6oz. “Pecan Halves” is distributed by IGA, INC in Chicago, IL USA 60631-2773, and it's made in America. They also note that there may be “peanuts, other tree nuts, milk, and an occational shell fragment”. Walmart's $7 12oz Fisher's “Chopped Pecans” is distributed by John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc in Elgin, IL 60123-7820 USA. They get their Pecans from America AND Mexico. They also warn consumers that there may be “peanuts and other tree nuts” in their packages. Save-a-Lot's Ginger Evans $5 6oz “Pecans” (Halves) are distributed by Save-a-Lot Food Stores, LTD., Earth City, MO 63045, and purport that it's Pecans hail from America. This is good, since we're saving American jobs, but Pecan trees should be planted everywhere. They used to be used as currency by the natives. And the Pecan Industry was revolutionized when a slave named Antoine (that's all we know about him; just his first name) grafted a successful Pecan tree that produced Pecan nuts in a few short years (instead of 100 years, like Pecan trees naturally produce).

We wouldn't have food labels without Ralph Nader.

I can purchase Pecan tree saplings for cheap; just $35 a tree, or less. One tree can produce a ton, but it will be the grafting that will be difficult. Either I will have to find one that is already grafted, or I'll have to graft it myself, and plant it in the Spring so that it'll have the greatest chance for survival. One guy put PVC pipes next to his plants to water them when there was a drought. I believe we have a better climate than that, but who knows. I may have to do that too. So if I buy 12 saplings, that's $420 (okay, I said “cheap”... I think it's like $15, but still, just to make sure I have enough, I'm using these numbers; and yeah, $420 is a pretty penny, but I believe the returns will be lucrative, since all the Pecans Hardinsburg gets is distributed from Chicago and Missouri, and who knows where they get their Pecans from. Some from Mexico, which is extraordinary to me, since the distribution costs have to be great, and maybe some from Georgia, and other various farms around the US).

With the Pecans I raise and grow, I will then need to find a way to package them, and sell them. Getting a bid from a major corporation would be helpful, but I see selling locally as the best way to do this. In a few years, I'll have pecan producing trees, and will figure it out from there.

In the meantime, there's more acreage, and more possibilities. There's plenty of pasture, for livestock, and that trims the grass, and fertilizes the soil; though, there's expenses there too, with shots, and grain.

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I'm not sure why none of the places in Hardinsburg contain Dixie Chili. I'm a bit pissed if you don't mind me saying. Not at IGA. Not at Save-a-Lot, or at Walmart.