The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department has a message for folks who enjoy harvesting pecans from the E. Carroll Joyner Park pecan grove: “Please leave it to Mother Nature to get the pecans on the ground.”
In recent days the parks and rec department has learned about the lengths to which some Joyner Park visitors are going to “encourage” the pecans to come loose from the trees. Town staff members have heard tales of pecan lovers shaking and climbing the trees, breaking branches, and even throwing objects into the trees, all in an effort to get the pecans on the ground. The pecans will naturally fall to the ground when they are fully mature; climbing the trees can damage them.
Out of concern for public safety, the officials are urging visitors – in a nutshell (no pun intended) – to please cut it out.
“We don’t want anyone to get hurt falling out of a tree or break limbs trying to get pecans,” said Urban Forestry Coordinator Jennifer Rall. “Visitors to Joyner Park are welcome to pick up the pecans that have fallen to the ground, but we’re asking them to please leave the trees alone.”
