Our team from Renfroe Pecan Company made their annual appearance at the Womens Expo this year on April 25th and 26th. Our booth was set up in the Louis A. Ross Center of PJC's main campus. We handed out bags filled with coupons and samples of some of our specialty pecans. People entered our contest to win one of our newest additions to the gift collection: The Large Seashell Gift Tower. This prize contains our best selling flavored pecans like our chocolate covered, white chocolate, and roasted and salted pecans. Of course we couldn't leave out our jumbo halves so those are included too, along with many other nutty treats. We all had a blast seeing familiar faces and meeting new people at the expo! We hope to see you there next year! -Renfroe Pecan Company ...More info on the Women's Expo
Recipe Preview for Queenie's Cookbook
On Saturday, November 22nd, 2008, Queenie Payne sampled some delicious treats from her cookbook "Down-Home Southern Girl." In the Renfroe Pecan Company Gift Shop, guests were able to taste the homemade goodness from recipes that are sure to be a hit for the Holidays.
Here are some of the recipes she's made to sample: Fig Cake, Chess Squares, Great Cream Cheese Pound Cake, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Carrot Cake Cheesecake, & Punch Bowl Cake. The best part is her cookbook - only $10.00 with 120 recipes!
J.W. Renfroe Pecan Co.: de-shelled
Pecans are the only Native American nuts. The Indians harvested pecans during the fall months as an important part of their diet. Pecans grew wild in the river and creek bottoms around the Gulf Coast long before Europeans settled the area. Around the turn of the century, pecans became an important commercial item with pecan processing plants being built around the country.
In the mid 1930’s, J.W. Renfroe started buying pecans in Troy, AL. His pecan business grew to be one of the largest accumulators of pecans in the country. He shipped truckloads of in-shell pecans to processing plants in Chicago and St. Louis as well as to others in Georgia and Texas. J.W. Renfroe, Jr. grew up in the business...
Pensacola has always been a good growing area for pecans. Pecan trees were numerous in downtown and in the area around Brownsville and near Alcaniz Street to Ferry Pass. The surrounding counties of Baldwin, Mobile, Escambia County Alabama, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa area all good pecan-producing areas. ...More from The Gulf Breeze News
For years, the J.W. Renfroe Pecan Co. in Pensacola, Florida, existed solely as a wholesale pecan dealer. But when times got tough in the early ’70s, the company began looking for other revenue sources. In 1972, it opened a retail location to sell its premium pecans directly to consumers. And in 1976, the owners purchased a small catalog company and began offering their pecans and pecan-related products through the mail. ...More from Entrepreneur Magazine