The Story of the Pecan: Making Native Crops Popular

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac

Home & Garden, Science, Nature, Leisure, Education, How To

5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Nearly every person reading this has tasted the pecan, a marked difference from every other tree crop subject we have covered so far in this series. Pecans are without a doubt the most successful native commercial nut crop in North America, but what most folks don’t know is that this status is a relatively new phenomenon. In fact, unlike the other tree crops we’ve covered so far, the pecan has debatably had the least amount of human interference of any nut crop in North America. In many ways, the pecan was for generations the definition of what a sustainable, passive native agroforestry system could look like to feed communities healthy food with minimal inputs. In this episode, we jump into the complex history of the pecan, from its indigenous use to its first grafting by an enslaved man named Antoine to the role the government played in making it a staple across grocery shelves throughout the world. Check out the corresponding substack article for resources, citations, and more information! https://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/p/pecans To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at https://www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For PPA Writing Content, visit: www.agroecologies.org For PPA Restoration Content, visit: www.restorationagroecology.com For PPA Merch, visit: www.poorproles.com For PPA Native Plants, visit: www.nativenurseries.org To hear Tomorrow, Today, our sister podcast, visit: www.tomorrowtodaypodcast.org/

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome back, everyone. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Man, it is good to be back. How you doing?
0:22.6	Good. Just spent a nice 15 minutes talking about life insurance. So, you know, 30s are going great.
0:29.6	Yeah. I hate it. It's making me nervous. My back hurt. My knees hurt. These fuckers better pay out. They better not give me the runaround. That's all I know.
0:38.7	We just spent like 15 minutes talking about life insurance and Matt's just like silently
0:43.2	watching us.
0:44.3	Like what...
0:44.9	See, it's really compelling evidence against ghosts that people, that like life insurance
0:52.6	agents, life insurance companies don't get haunted you know what I'm saying
0:57.1	Yeah, I mean that that checks out. Yeah if if any asshole is gonna get a haunted it'd be that guy the guy who sold you
1:03.9	It's gonna be the life it does check out because I just realized they're not gonna pay me out there and have to pay out my wife
1:09.1	I will haunt the motherfucker that's right but you know unless unless unless uh so today we are not talking about life
1:19.1	insurance i mean not on the recording too much i know you were excited matt was pumped i'm pumped
1:26.5	i'm pumped about something that's not life insurance, though.
1:30.6	And that's because we're talking about the one crop that probably in 100 and, I don't
1:38.2	know, 80 episodes we've done.
1:40.0	This is like the one that everyone, other than corn, I guess, that everyone's probably
1:43.9	eaten.
1:44.9	It's a native crop.
1:46.3	It's had just a little bit of domestication done to it.
1:49.9	And it still has like a ton of great ecosystem benefits while also somehow being a profitable crop.
1:57.2	The man is pecan pilled.
1:59.0	Peck-pilled.
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