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How to Pick & Ripen a Pear
We’re harvesting some pears here at the farmstead and it got me to thinking about the “perfect” pear.
You know the kind…
As your teeth sink into it, the sweet juice runs down your chin and the texture is “just right” – not mealy or too hard.
Many times, that perfect pear is elusive…at least it was for me for most of my life.
But that is because until recently, I never really understood how a pear ripens.
It took having a pear tree of my own for me to learn how it all works.
In this post, I share some tips for picking the perfect pear (on the tree or at the grocery store) and how to get it to ripen to perfection.
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