Texas Finest Mesquite Furniture: Home, Office or Patio

Hart's specialize in the manufacture of Mesquite furniture. 30 year family business. Mesquite furniture for your
home, office or ranch house. Custom made Mesquite office desk and chair. Mesquite dining tables with mesquite benches,
chairs or stools. Hand made Texas Mesquite bar with bar stools for your patio. Visit our showroom, pick out your favorite
Mesquite wood. Open 7 days a week. Sabinal is 1 hour drive west of San Antonio, Texas.

"The Mesquite is one of the most widely distributed trees in Texas. It is a small to medium tree with an irregular crown of finely divided bipinnately compound foliage that casts very light dappled shade underneath. It is armed with thorns sometimes up to 2 inches long. In the spring, summer and after rains it is covered with fragrant white flowers, and the long bean pods are ornamental as well as providing food for wildlife and livestock.

The Mesquite is not a rancher's favorite tree: it readily invades overgrazed sites and other disturbed land, and is virtually impossible to get rid of. However, it is heat and drought tolerant, it fixes nitrogen in the soil and provides many areas of Texas with shade, fuel and timber. The wood is used in flooring, furniture, and as a cookwood for seasoning." Aggie Horticulture: Texas Native Trees

The Mesquite bean pods are slightly curved, 4 to 8 inches long and are of nutrional value to livestock and wildlife. The pods contain 80% carbohydrates, 13% protein, 25% fiber and 3% fat. In the fall the bean pods turn from green to variations of gold and brown and fall to the ground. We often see different wildlife grouped together under the trees sharing a meal of Mesquite beans.

The American Indians judged the weather on the mesquite tree. If the bean pods ripened and fell early, there would be an early winter. If the bean pods were full and heavy, there would be a long and hard winter. The Indians ate the bean pods and used the tree sap for medicinal properties.

The story goes, 200 years ago the Spainards were in South America where their live stock ate the Mesquite bean pods. As they traveled through Texas, their livestock deposited the seeds along the trail.