From The Orchard

Thanksgiving Day--Kissing Cousins

 Can you believe it’s already December?  I can’t!  We have been busy harvesting this year’s crop of pecans with most of our crop of nuts having been picked up, cleaned, dried and sold.  We don’t have a shelling plant, so our in-shell pecans are sold from the farm after being cleaned.  We are experiencing another great year for our wonderful pecans and the quality is also very good, even better than last year.  God has showered his blessings on us again this year–that is for sure!  Praise God from whom all blessings flow…

•  Georgia Public Broadcasting www.gptv.com came to the farm in November and taped a show called Cultivating Life which will aired in the Fall of 2009–an early morning with lot’s of hustle and bustle.  Sharing our families’ harvest in this manner can be very rewarding and lot’s of fun as we get an opportunity to really help me understand just what goes into running a family farm…passion, integrity and perseverence!
• That same weekend, we participated in a local show in Perry, GA called Mistletoe Market the weekend before Thanksgiving.  Lots of work.  Lots of Fun. Go to www.13wmaz.com and view the pictures from the market…Our Old-Fashioned Christmas Shoppe is actually the first picture posted.  Once in the website, simply search for Mistletoe Market and the newest gallery of pictures should upload for your enjoyment.
• And, of course, we spent time with our family over the Thanksgiving Season.  Wouldn’t you know that we are expecting 2 more grandchildren in February and July of 2009.  These are the days of our lives…

All of us here at Pearson Farm are busy like Santa’s elves creating beautiful gifts, delicious cakes & pies, gift stacks and stacks of gift tins for all of our customers. 

• One of the best things that happened just this week is that we were featured in the food section of the New York Times as a great place to order pecans & gifts under $50.  Go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/dining/03gift.html?_r=2&ref=dining  to view the article in it’s entirety.  Because of this one article, we have been blessed with orders from all over the United States and Canada. This is the third or fourth time an article about Pearson Farm has been published in the New York Times, and I am always amazed at the number of people that read this newspaper from New York to California and everthing in between, below and above.  What fun it is to make friends over the phone with such great people and to think they all love Georgia pecans!
• Just yesterday on December 9, we were delightfully visited by our dear friend Virginia Willis as she was in town

  Chef Virgina Willis with Al, Lanier and Mary

  for a cooking demonstration at The Peach Palette in Fort Valley. 

                                                                      

 

 

 

Proud to be a farmers wife,

                                                                       Mary