Morgan King shares how pecans can be a good addition to many foods.

This Sig Byrd column originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle on Oct. 29, 1957. Lots of readers with aching backs and arthritic knees have been writing and telephoning to know where they can buy ...

Pecan producers are benefiting from high prices and an abundant harvest, and so is anyone with a paper sack and a pecan tree. "That hand-picked price in Oklahoma is 80 cents to $1 per pound," said ...

Pecans have a storied history in the United States. Today, American trees produce hundreds of million of pounds of pecans – 80% of the world’s pecan crop. Most of that crop stays here. Pecans are used ...

There’s one thing you can always count on around the holiday season…you’re going to be seeing a whole lot of nuts. Those chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Enough pecan pies to sink a ship. Walnuts, ...

Remember last week when winter barged in? Freezing temperatures at dawn. An icy 25 mph wind. Those foul conditions signaled the start of a season, pecan picking season. Or make that pecan picking-up ...

The faintest suspicion of fall is in the air. There's the occasional daytime high in the lower 90s, pumpkins and decorative gourds are showing up on supermarket shelves, and thoughts are turning to ...

For many, the fall season conjures up visions of leaves falling and changing color from green to yellow, orange or brown. They may even desire to travel to the Northeast to witness nature’s beauty ...

It’s a rule. Pecan trees grow best when planted where you don’t want them by forgetful squirrels. Or maybe the squirrels don’t forget those pecans; instead, they die before they retrieve them. Over ...

A recent harvest of pecans evoked childhood memories for the author of gathering nuts at their great-grandmother's home in North Carolina. The author's great-grandmother, Inez, inspired a love for ...

My aunt lives on a large patch of land outside of Waxahachie. Each year, usually by the first week in November, the large grove of pecan trees that surrounds her house swells with thousands of nuts. I ...