It's vital to know the exact time you should harvest pears because pears are ready to be picked when they're fully formed, not when they're ripe on the tree. Leave them until they're ripe and you may ...

As part of Country Living’s new Plot to Plate series, we’ll hear from Raymond Blanc and the team at Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, on how to grow, prune and harvest the season’s very best produce and ...

If a pear is harvested too early before it is mature it will soften but be tasteless. If a pear is harvested when past ripe the fruit will be soft and mushy. How to know when to harvest our ...

Proving resistant to early-summer heat, the regional pear crop is coming in better than early-season estimates, according to figures released by pear industry officials. Local growers, who recently ...

Urban Abundance, a Slow Food Southwest Washington program, is gearing up for its largest fundraiser and harvest. Called Pick-a-Pear-a-thon, it’ll happen either the second or third week in August. It ...

A few weeks ago, a reader emailed to ask why she wasn’t finding Seckel pears in the grocery stores yet. She watches for them each year and was wondering what the delay is in their arrival. I hadn’t ...

Pear Bureau Northwest estimates this season’s pear harvest for Oregon and Washington will be down 31% in volume from the five-year average. The crop is anticipated to reach 10.6 million standard box ...

Bartlett pears hang from a tree branch at Oregon State University’s Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center on July 18. U.S. fresh pear exports are expected to drop to their lowest level since ...

An August heat spell brought the Rogue Valley’s pear harvest on track for a normal schedule. Rogue Valley growers began harvesting red pears in mid-August and began picking Comice blocks just before ...

Pears and apples are keystone crops in the Columbia Gorge. The Hood River Valley is a prime location for orchards and fruit. (iStock.com) YAKIMA — Proving resistant to early-summer heat, the regional ...