Asian pears can turn ripe as early as July, although September and October are the months when they generally reach their peak. Their harvest season can last until winter. Also known as apple ...

Popular Asian pear varieties include Nijisseiki, Shinseiki, Niitaka, and Hosui. Regular, Western pears require some ripening ...

Meanwhile, there’s a strong crop in the Columbia Gorge and Yakima Valley growing districts, said Doug Gibson, vice president ...

Gottschalk is the apple and pear geneticist and breeder at Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia ...

Would you pay $50 for six pears? Luxury fruit—a longtime cultural staple in Asian markets—has finally made landfall in the US ...

The most common tree fruits grown in home orchards are apples, pears (European and Asian), and stone fruits (peaches ... boscalid along with an insecticide), applied three weeks before harvest for ...

No that's not an apple you see! But Asian pears do have a strong resemblance to their closely related cousin. In fact, Asian pears are sometimes called apple pears, nashi, or Japanese pears.

These sweet, fuzzy gems, harvested from late July through late ... The farm has nearly 60,000 apple, peach, and Asian pear trees across 160 acres. Many of the farm’s spectacular walking paths ...

A summer of warm, sunny weather with a smattering of rain has many tree-fruit growers on Prince Edward Island smiling as the ...

The House and Senate have less than two weeks to pass the bill before the November election. The Indiana Farm Bureau, among ...

the hotel’s restaurant Lucy Restaurant & Bar now ranks as one of the culinary destinations in town for dishes such as ahi tuna carpaccio with K&J Farms Asian pear, avocado, yuzu-prickly pear ...

My most vivid memory of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival isn’t devouring mooncakes but reciting a poem: Li Bai’s “Quiet ...