Pecans have grown in Texas since prehistoric times. Indians gratefully ate them and also gave them their name, an Algonquian word meaning a nut that it takes a stone to crack. A member of the ...

Each year, the farm produces 5 million pounds of the iconic Texas nut. The farm sits atop a reservoir of underground water ...

One of them was this shot mailed from San Antonio—a massive pecan over ... the nuts to be “given out among the plain people so that they may plant them and make Texas a land of trees.” ...