Regeneratively Grown, Rooted in Purpose: The Waymaker Story

Our regeneratively grown South Georgia pecans come with a story worth sharing: a family farm, care for God’s creation, and a purpose that reaches beyond the harvest.

With Waymaker Pecans, that story starts at our family’s farm in Pelham, South Georgia. We’re James and April Workman, and we want you to know more than the name on the bag. We want you to know the care, convictions, and purpose behind the pecans we grow.

When you choose a premium food, it’s fair to ask what you’re choosing beyond the product itself. For us, the answer begins with how we think about the land, and continues with what we do with the opportunity to share its harvest.

A family farm with the future in mind

We planted our pecan groves in 2021. Growing trees has given us a reason to think beyond a single season. The choices we make now belong to a longer story: the land we care for, the trees growing in it, and the farm we hope to keep improving.

Our Christian faith shapes that responsibility. We see caring for the farm as stewardship of what God has entrusted to us. That calls us to pay attention, keep learning, and be thoughtful about the decisions we make.

We want our pecans to reflect that care, in the work that comes before the harvest as well as in how we talk about it.

Regenerative growing starts with how we see the farm

When we consider a farming decision, we ask:

Does this help build, diversify, or protect soil biology—the life in God’s creation beneath our feet?

That is the lens behind our approach to regeneratively grown pecans. The life around these trees is not ours to claim; it is part of God’s creation, entrusted to our care. We think about that living system, not just the crop we hope to gather from it.

It leads us to consider how we feed the soil, how we use cover crops, and how our orchard-care choices fit together. We’re interested in practices that support the life in that system while caring for the trees that produce our food.

For us, regenerative growing means taking that long view: considering the soil, the trees, and the life around them together. We want our choices today to serve the farm’s future as well as the harvest ahead.

Regenerative Verified through Soil Regen

We are Regenerative Verified through Soil Regen.

Soil Regen’s program combines soil-health testing by Regen Ag Lab with verification of regenerative management practices. It looks at soil ecosystem function alongside how a farm is managed, rather than relying on a list of practices alone.

For us, this recognition sits alongside the everyday responsibility of stewardship. We want to keep learning about the land we care for and explain our growing approach clearly to the people who choose our pecans.

Clear choices for our 2026 crop

We also believe you deserve specifics, not only a broad description of our values. For this harvest, these are our commitments:

No synthetic pesticides or herbicides in 2026

We also used no synthetic nitrogen in 2026.

Those statements describe choices we made for this crop. They give you something concrete to consider alongside our family story and our approach to stewardship.

That’s part of what we want Waymaker to offer: a connection to the people who grow your food, and a clear explanation of what matters to them.

Made to share, in more ways than one

Our mission is to share the message that every good gift comes from above—from the way we grow to the way we share our harvest.

Our gift boxes offer a way to share that story along with premium South Georgia pecans. Whether you’re giving to friends and family, thanking coworkers or employees, or showing appreciation to clients and customers, a gift can be a thoughtful way to say, “You matter.”

We hope those gifts share more than something good to eat. We want them to be an opportunity to express love, offer encouragement, and point to the hope that comes from our Heavenly Father. The pecans are the gift we grow; the love and goodness we want to reflect begin with Him.

For us, that connects gratitude for what we’ve been given with responsibility for how we use it. Caring for the land, growing food, and sharing the harvest are different parts of that same purpose.

Giving financially is one way we put that purpose into practice.

10% of every sale goes to a Christian ministry near and dear to our hearts, Good Samaritan Counseling.

We’re grateful that growing and selling pecans gives us this opportunity to give. But our hope reaches beyond the donation itself: we want the story of Waymaker to point back to the Giver, in how we care for His creation and in the spirit with which we share what it produces.

A choice with a story behind it

Whether you’re choosing pecans for your kitchen or a thoughtful gift, we hope knowing their story makes that choice more personal.

When you choose Waymaker, you’re choosing pecans grown by our family in South Georgia, with an approach guided by care for God’s creation and a purpose that connects growing, gratitude, and giving. That’s what we want our name to stand for.

We’d be honored to share our harvest with you. Explore our pecans at WaymakerPecans.com.

Rooted in Faith. Grown with Purpose. Made to Share.