Our neighborhood is set on an active pecan plantation. Because of this, we have 9 Pecan trees in our yard...and this was our first year to harvest all of those pecans. Luckily, however, we have resources to help us out. Down the street we have a place that rents out harvesters that pick up pecans a LOT faster than we could on our own. They also buy our pecans from us. We were able to take them our pecans - shells on, leaves all in them - and they "cleaned" them, then weighed them - and cut us a check based on that weight. AND what's even better - they shell pecans and sell them right there - so we can take the money that we earned and turn around and buy whatever shelled pecans we want for the year. How much easier could it get?
Anyway, it took us about 2 days of work to harvest all of our pecans - which ended up totaling about 200 lbs. (clean) total! Insane! And we still have some pecans in our yard...and some trees haven't given all of their pecans up yet :) It was a good experience. Bella liked that she could help push the harvester, Balian liked stealing the pecans and playing with them, I liked being outside working and playing together as a family all day, and Neil liked that we got paid to clean up our yard!
Anyway, it took us about 2 days of work to harvest all of our pecans - which ended up totaling about 200 lbs. (clean) total! Insane! And we still have some pecans in our yard...and some trees haven't given all of their pecans up yet :) It was a good experience. Bella liked that she could help push the harvester, Balian liked stealing the pecans and playing with them, I liked being outside working and playing together as a family all day, and Neil liked that we got paid to clean up our yard!