Source: CHase Jordan, SAMPSON INDEPENDENT, 9/15/20


At Avenue Gourmet Pecans, the Faircloth Family is continuing to make treats coated in delicious flavors like chocolate, vanilla, and cinnamon. But the works starts in a pecan orchards which were beat up by storms in the 2010s. After Hurricane Matthew swept through Sampson County in 2016, the business lost about 90 percent of their crops because of wind damage. “It shook the nuts of the tree prematurely before the sucks split,” Eddie Faircloth said.

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