Milking Trees – Kortney Chase

To be Milk does it have to come from a cow? Not any more as evidenced in Supermarkets and Coffee shops across the country and around the world. This episode of Farm To Table Talk feautres Kortney Chase who shares her journey from growing up on a pecan farm to creating “Pecana milk, a shelf-stable pecan milk product. The family’s three generation pecan farming business evolved from selling to processors to becoming one of the top pecan manufacturers globally . Kortney shares how she developed Pecana Milk during COVID-19 after making nut milk at home, eventuallyt transitioning from refrigerated to shelf-stable packaging with an 18 month shelf life and the challenges of entering the competitive non-dairy mik market, including placement in stores and consumer education about the product’s location. From their beginning on the farm in New Mexico they have grown to distribution to over 5,000 stores where consumers continue to want to know where food comes from and understand ingredient transparency. pecanamilk.com