Bass Pecan Company

In 1899, I. E. Bass came to L It wasn't long before he began selling his pecan crop to friends and family, which led to the beginnings of Bass Pecan Company. Mr. Bass published his first catalog in 1909, selling in-shell pecans and pecan trees under the name I. E. Bass & Sons Pecan Company. Over the years, the company continuously increased the catalog distribution and mail order business, and by 1928, the company was mailing a record 1. 5 million catalogs worldwide. I. H. Bass, one of the Bass sons, took a special interest in pecans. He learned how to graft and improve the seedling pecan tree. After graduating from Tulane University in 1910, he returned to L E. Bass & Sons Pecan Company. During the years immediately following World War I, I. H. Bass bought several pecan nurseries along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which was the birthplace of many of the best known pecan varieties at the time, and some we still view as the best tasting pecans today. Several varieties from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, including Forkert, Jackson, and Stewart, have become synonymous with paper shell or improved variety pecans. The Bass Son improved the pecan varieties from these Mississippi nurseries into what would become the largest pecan tree nursery in the world for the next several decades. Today, we still sell the Forkert & Jackson nuts and trees. By 1925, I. H. Bass purchased his father's interest in the company and changed his name to Bass Pecan Company. The current Mississippi owners, Max and Susan Drorn, acquired Bass Pecan Company in 2006 and moved the operations from L The base of operations is an almost 500 acre farm. Originally, this farm had a square mile of pecan trees planted around 1870. The trees that remain today from that original plantation are still being harvested each year. The current owners spent a year cleaning up the property and planting more pecan trees. In 2007, they published their first Bass Pecan catalog. It is now a commercial pecan farm where Bass Pecan Company sells pecan trees to homeowners, hobby farmers, and large pecan farms, as well as pecans to the retail public, fruit stands, and to large wholesalers. In the fall of 2022, Bass Pecan opened a new retail pecan store, opened strictly during the pecan season mid-October through December. This store offers shelled and in-shell pecans to the Metro Jackson public. Our website, BassPecan. com, makes it easy for customers around the world to have pecans shipped directly to them. Bass Pecan Tree Nursery can be found on the web at BassPecanTrees. com for many varieties of pecan trees. As times have changed, Bass Pecan Company has changed as well. It remains ever faithful to the uncompromising quality that has made it successful since 1906.