Swampy's Florida

Swampy’s napping spot under a pecan tree near Palatka nets him a headache from today’s celebration – nuts. in this case, it’s pecans.

Florida agriculture is a backbone of our economy and has been since Florida became a state. To quote the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. “The combined acreage of deciduous and subtropical/tropical fruit and nut crops in Florida is approximately 30,000 acres.”. You can read more about our Florida nut production here:
http://smallfarms.ifas.ufl.edu/crops/fruits_and_nuts/overview.html

Did you know we have a community in our state named Pecan? It’s off US17 just north of Palatka.
Here is where Pecan, Florida is:

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