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 ...

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 ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! It is hard to believe this is the last week of April. Hopefully, most of the cold weather is behind us as we experienced two very chilling nights this week ...

The gardening season has started and if you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and ...

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 ...