While Schermer Pecans was founded in 1946, pecan farming has been a source of pride for our family for over a hundred years. We are 5th generation Georgia pecan growers and many of our pecans are harvested from orchards that have been in our family for over 115 years. In 2023, we sold a portion of our orchards but still maintain our standards of only using the highest quality Georgia pecans purchased from our friends and neighbors that we know, love, and trust.
Putt Wetherbee spent his childhood alongside his father atop one of Georgia's only two mechanized harvesters. Shelling gadgets and gizmos were eye-candy and Putt relished the camaraderie that came with harvest time and in the everyday inner workings of the Schermer Pecan shelling plant. Today, Putt is still inspired by pecans - from watching the buds break in April to harnessing the latest in technology and managing the increased world demand. Pecans are in Putt’s blood. His father, a pecan grower since 1959, purchased Schermer Pecans in 1977 and with it became the owner of one of the largest pecan companies in Georgia. Putt’s namesake, planter and philanthropist Francis Flagg Putney, was part of the largest commercial pecan planting that took place around the turn of the century and some of the orchards still remain in the family.
