Wednesday, July 9, 2014

What do you see?


Is it the latest shade of green?


Every year new shoots reach for the sky.  In February I cut them down.  I make the cut past the second node to encourage the right amount of fruit to grow.  Okay, I don't really know what I'm doing, but I know this farmer family that has pear trees.  Guess who harvests their hair?  

In September I pick the pairs.  Our cellar isn't really built for long term storage and the pears seem to ripen all at once.  I usually dry them with the dehydrator.  They turn into delicious candy.  Processing is a lot more work than growing in this case.

Here are our pears today.


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