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 ...

We are approaching peak prickly pear season. Based on the prickly pear fruit she can see in her neighborhood, Sonya Norman gives it another week or two before the fruit is really ready for harvest.

The pre-size plant at Diamond Fruit Growers was built in 1970. The co-op represents about 60 pear and cherry farms in the Hood River Valley. HOOD RIVER, Ore. — With pear harvest in full swing across ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Subarashii Kudamono, which means “wonderful fruit” in Japanese, is an heirloom grower of Asian ...

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 ...

Besides growing wine grapes, I also produce pears. As I have tried to chronicle here since the earliest start to a growing season on record in the eastern U.S., the unusual weather is changing the way ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pears have always been among the orchard fruit trees at our family farm. In Europe, pears are known as “the butter fruit” because of the smooth, soft and “creamy texture” of the flesh when ripe. Today ...

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 ...