Tag: anjou pear

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Our Pear Tree is Sick

What a shame! After nearly 8 years, and countless good harvests, sometimes of 150 pears or more, our pear tree is dying. It is, it turns out, cedar apple rust. And some bugs, too. It’s beyond upsetting.   Related posts: […]

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Pear Upside Down Cake

What to do with an impressive pear harvest? Well, pear sauce, for sure (that recipe is coming), and some kind of dessert. Right? Right. Pear upside down cake it is, then. I liked this recipe from Food & Wine’s Thanksgiving […]

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Pear Harvest: It’s a Good Year

It’s been a very good year for our Anjou pear tree. We’ve been picking pears and eating them out of hand nearly every day since mid-September. Today, we’re taking a bunch of pears that fell off a little unripe, but […]

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In the Garden on a Warm Wednesday Evening

A few pics from a warm Wednesday at twilight. Pear tree, loaded: Joe Pye, in full bloom: Bees (and toes): Sour Cherry Farm theater: A beautiful limelight blossom: Related posts: Update on the Garden: Phlox, Butterfly Bush, Hydrangea, Cosmos and […]

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The Farm’s First Pear Harvest

We finally got a harvest from our Anjou pear tree. We planted it at least four years — four years! maybe five! — ago. How exciting! Related posts: A Tree Comes Down in Nyack The Sour Cherry Harvest Sunday at […]