Comments on: Pecan Harvest https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/ The Temple of Compassion in Texas is a member of Kriya Yoga International Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:12:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ToCadmin https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/#comment-220 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:07:34 +0000 https://templeofcompassion.org/toc/?p=1111#comment-220 Erin and Madeline with pecans they cracked and shelled
Believe it or not, we are STILL cracking pecans from last year! Thanks to Erin Kelly and her daughter Madeline for their work adding to the cracked and shelled pecans in our freezer!

]]> By: ToCadmin https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/#comment-199 Sat, 07 Jan 2017 16:42:47 +0000 https://templeofcompassion.org/toc/?p=1111#comment-199 Leslie Ma and Gitanjali cracking and shelling pecans January 7, 2017.

Leslie Ma and Gitanjali continue the never-ending job of cracking and shelling pecans.
The new electric pecan cracking machine is a wonderful addition, and is a joy to use.
And although Jan Ma is not in this picture she WAS the first person to use the machine!
Thank you, Jan Ma.

World's best nut cracking machine

]]> By: ToCadmin https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/#comment-195 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:08:06 +0000 https://templeofcompassion.org/toc/?p=1111#comment-195 Jan Ma shelling pecans
We have a new and VERY dedicated pecan sheller in our midst: Jan Ma from Miami! She’s here for a month, and has shelled hundreds of pecans for us. We’re hoping that before she leaves, she can be the first to use the new electric pecan sheller that she so generously donated.

]]> By: ToCadmin https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/#comment-190 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:46:32 +0000 https://templeofcompassion.org/toc/?p=1111#comment-190 Tirelessly cracking and shelling pecans – seva during Gurudev’s Mahasamadi celebration. Punitha Ma, Devi Ma, Krishna Ma, and Tusar Baba spent hours cracking and shelling pecans divinely infused with the love of God and gurus.
pecan shelling seva

]]> By: ToCadmin https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/#comment-182 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:21:17 +0000 https://templeofcompassion.org/toc/?p=1111#comment-182 Pecan Analysis
Thanks to Ramin Baba for putting his scientific mind to the early stages of our pecan business plan! About one hundred pounds of pecans had been picked up from the front yard and were waiting to be analyzed. Ramin rose to the challenge of determining how many nuts in the shell make one pound, how long it takes to crack and shell them (with our humble one-nut-at-a-time cracker), and how many ounces of shelled nuts came out of it.

Two varieties were analyzed – “native” and “desirable”.

Native Pecans
* 81 nuts in the shell = 1 pound
* Average 11.5 bad nuts out of 81
* Average yield is 5.55 ounces of ready-to-eat nuts
* Average time to crack and shell them was 37 minutes

Desirable Variety Pecans
* 49 nuts in the shell = 1 pound
* Average 5 bad nuts out of 49
* Average yield is 6.95 ounces of ready to eat nuts
* Average time to crack and shell them was 25 minutes

Ramin also researched higher capacity nut cracking and shelling machines, and calculated the return on investment for it.

And last but not least, he analyzed the cost of the effort to do all of this work ourselves, the cost of having them all cracked for us in Brenham, selling them at retail price through our website, and selling them at wholesale price in Brenham.

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]]> By: ToCadmin https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/#comment-174 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:20:47 +0000 https://templeofcompassion.org/toc/?p=1111#comment-174 Deep gratitude to Leah Ma from Austin, and Sri Ma & Sydney Ma from Houston for their tireless efforts collecting pecans yesterday! We have a LOT of pecans already, and the trees just keep giving and giving.

Sydney, Leah, SriTubs of pecans

]]> By: ToCadmin https://templeofcompassion.org/2017/06/09/pecan-harvest/#comment-172 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:18:27 +0000 https://templeofcompassion.org/toc/?p=1111#comment-172 Just found out there’s a Pecan Show in Washington County in November! Growers from this county exhibit their pecans and compete for prizes. Anyone interested in going, you can learn more about it here:
http://washington.agrilife.org/event/washington-county-pecan-show-3/

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