Time and patience and the right conditions for ripening will get you the tastiest pears. With pears, timing is everything. The most widely planted and consumed pear in America is the Bartlett. You’ll ...

Matt Hemly shows a Bartlett pear still on a tree after harvest season while walking through one of the family orchards in Courtland in October 2015. The Hemly family has been growing pears for six ...

There are thousands of varieties of pears across the globe, but only a handful appear regularly on our grocers’ shelves. But which pear should you pick for which purpose? Varieties like Comice will ...

December is National Pear Month, not just because we hear about them in a famous Christmas carol, but because most of the varieties are in season. There are six main states in the U.S. that produce ...