Haller Pecan Farm

10/16/2019

Gay Haller’s Pralines

Bring to a boil:
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
6 tablespoons margarine
¼ cup corn syrup
5 tablespoons milk

Boil one minute.
Remove from heat and add 1 ½ cup pecans and 1 tablespoon vanilla.
Stir constantly in the pan until it begins to thicken and loses its glossiness or when the pan gets cool.
Drop by teaspoon on wax paper.

08/20/2019

Antoine, an enslaved man in Louisiana in the 1840s, developed the practice of grafting pecan trees. He was featured in The NY Times Sunday section called 1619 this week, which was about slavery in America https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

Pecan trees, armored with scaly, gray bark and waving their green leaves in the breeze, grow in neat, uniform rows upon the Southern U.S. landscape and

12/17/2018

Holiday Spiced Pecans - a special treat for you and also perfect for gift giving. Roasted to perfection and infused with a blend of spices.

12/18/2017

My college friend Bruce wrote a nice remembrance of Richard L. Haller in the Staunton (VA) News Leader. (No online version. Message me if you want a copy. Beth)

12/16/2017

Pecan trees, armored with scaly, gray bark and waving their green leaves in the breeze, grow in neat, uniform rows upon the Southern U.S. landscape and yield more than 300 million pounds of thumb-sized, plump, brown nuts every year. Native to the United States, they’ve become our most successful h...

12/04/2017

Keith West, the Culinary Director for Demos' and Peter D's restaurants made a Pecan Pie Cobbler.

09/18/2017

Georgia may lose up to 30 percent of its pecan harvest because of Hurricane Irma, according to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

09/15/2017

Obituary for the founder of the Haller Pecan Farm, Richard L. Haller

Richard L. Haller, 1930-2017 Richard Louis Haller of Fort Worth, Texas, aerospace engineer, pecan farmer and loving husband, father and friend, died September 14, 2017 of colon cancer. He was 87. H…

09/11/2017

Georgia pecan farmers are bracing for the hurricane’s potential impact on this year’s crop.

09/03/2017

“We need to shift the view of pecans beyond pecan pie.”

“We need to shift the view of pecans beyond pecan pie”

07/14/2017

Excellent book about the history of pecans in North America

This lively history by the acclaimed author of Just Food and A Revolution in Eating follows the pecan from primordial Southern groves to the contemporary Chinese marketplace to reveal how a nut with a very limited natural range has become a global commodity and endangered heirloom.