Recipes for sweet, peanut-packed treats abound in Elaine Helms’ Geneva County kitchen.

Her affinity for stirring up Crock-Pot candy, sugared peanuts or peanut brittle is especially fitting considering her husband, Jimmy, grows the delicious, nutritious peanut in Slocomb. The Helms family also grows cotton, corn, hay and oats on land Jimmy’s great-grandfather settled in 1893.