People ask if our pecans are organic. Here's the honest answer: we farm the way an organic grower would — no synthetic pesticides, no chemical fertilizers — we just haven't paid for the government label. So instead of a word, here's exactly what we do. Judge it for yourself.
We're a family farm outside Bastrop, Texas — pecan trees in the orchard, Dorper sheep in the rows between them. The same people who plant and prune the trees are the ones who pick, sort, and ship the nuts. Nothing about this operation is hands-off, and nobody in the supply chain touches your pecans but us.
That matters because "how it's grown" is only as trustworthy as the people saying it. So here we are — names, place, and practices, all on one page.
This is the heart of how we farm, and it's the easiest thing to picture: our Dorper flock grazes the orchard floor. They keep the grass and weeds down between the trees, which means no herbicide spray and no diesel mower running through the orchard all summer. As they graze, they fertilize the ground the old-fashioned way.
One flock does the work of a chemical weed program, a fertilizer program, and a mowing crew — and at the end of the season those same sheep become the grass-fed lamb we sell. Nothing on this farm goes to waste, and the sheep are the reason we can grow clean without it being a chore.
We don't spray synthetic pesticides on our trees, and we don't feed them chemical fertilizers. The sheep handle fertility; careful timing, healthy soil, and old-fashioned attention handle the rest. It's slower and it's more work than the spray-and-forget approach — that's the trade we've chosen, and it's the trade a lot of our customers are looking for.
When the pecans come off the tree, they're sorted and bagged on the farm and shipped straight from Bastrop to your door. No warehouse in between, no repackaging, no wholesaler putting their name on our nuts. What you open is what came off our trees.
Are your pecans organic? Not certified — and we'd rather show you than tell you. We farm the way a certified grower would: no synthetic pesticides, no chemical fertilizers. We just haven't gone through the government's certification and paid for the label. Everything we actually do is on this page, so you can decide whether it meets your bar.
Why aren't you certified? Certification is a paperwork-and-fee process, not a different way of farming. For a family operation our size, the money and time it takes are better spent on the orchard and the flock. If that changes, we'll tell you.
What do the sheep have to do with the pecans? Everything. The Dorpers graze the orchard floor, which replaces herbicide, mowing, and chemical fertilizer all at once — and they become the grass-fed lamb we also sell. The sheep are why we can farm this way without spraying.
Do you spray anything at all? No synthetic pesticides and no chemical fertilizers. The sheep and the soil do the work that sprays and synthetic feed do on a conventional orchard.
Where are the pecans grown and shipped from? Our family orchard outside Bastrop, Texas. We sort, bag, and ship from the farm — the pecans don't pass through anyone else's hands.
No sprays, no shortcuts, no middleman — just pecans grown the way we'd want to eat them, shipped from our family to your kitchen.
