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Pecans on Sanders Ridge at the Dean Vannoy Place Though farm was one a big commercial enterprise, the pecans aren't sold. 'They are just for me and the crows and squirrels and people I give them to - or let them pick up,' Dean Vannoy says. Click on headline for story, photo(s) By Ed Waggener It's sometimes easy to forget that Adair County has had in the past, good pecan production. It was mostly centered around the Green River Country, and much of the production was ended with the coming of Green River Lake. Dean Vannoy, who was known over three counties for the wonderful watermelons and cantaloupes he and his family grew on Sanders Ridge, still maintains sixteen pecan trees. He wonders why more people don't have them. His melon fields were commercial operations, but now, in retirement, the pecans, which surely have commercial value, are, he says, "Just for me and the crows and squirrels and people give them to - or let them pick up." He said that pecan trees are native to Kentucky, but these were from plantings his brother Wayne sent to him while he was in service in North Carolina. "These trees are a northern variety," he said, "and I've noticed that while they don't bear as consistently as southern ones, the nuts are sweeter." A taste test proved him right. Like so many products straight from the farm in Adair County, there is a noticeable and better taste. He wonders, too, why more people don't have pecans simply as shade three. A variety of hickory, pecans grow tall, and the green foliage is gorgeous. This story wasn't originally about pecans, not even about Pekin ducks or bluegill; it just happened that way. The son went down as the tutorial on these subjects wound down. The big story, which this man who is so generous with his knowledge, was about gathering wild grapes, and distinguishing between possum and fox grapes. Dean Vannoy wonders why more people don't glean what is here naturally and in abundance. Wild grapes are on the tart side, he says, and they're sometimes hard to gather, but they make the best preserves known to man, he says. "They really pack the flavor in." That's a story for another day. Soon, we hope. This story was posted on 2013-11-06 07:12:30
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