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Scientists: Rare pear is a genetic peach
WASHINGTON – As the bright yellow, fuzzy cousins of pears and apples, quinces maintain a relatively low profile among the pome fruits.
How to plant pear trees to produce fruit
Learn how to successfully plant pear trees and ensure that they produce fruit by understanding their growing requirements and best practices for planting.
Planting Callery pear no longer permitted in Ohio
It is now illegal to sell, grow, or plant Callery pear in Ohio because of its invasive qualities and likelihood to cause economic or environmental harm.
How to find and forage for wild Ohio pears
The wild Ohio pear is a common orchard pear that has escaped cultivation and taken root in the wild. Learn where to find them and when to pick them.
Bradford pear tree blooms fill air with rotting stench
The Bradford pear is not native to the United States.
Bald-faced hornets: Amazing arboreal artists
Tami Gingrich offers insight into the construction of the large, grey, pear-shaped, nests built by bald-faced hornets.
Here’s the scoop on avocado
What’s so great about this versatile pear-shaped food? For starters, it’s good for you. Plus, it’s delicious.
How to treat sunburns with native plants in the Midwest
Prickly pear, wild rose and wild peach trees have properties that make them ideal for treating sunburn. Learn how to find and prepare them to soothe burns.
Experts warn of strep-resistant fire blight found in New York orchards
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell plant pathologists have issued a warning to New York apple and pear growers after discovering a strain of fire blight that is resistant to such traditional treatments as the antibiotic streptomycin.
Purplebrown Farmstead focuses on imitating nature
In 2021, Sasha Miller is hoping to get pears from the trees she planted a few years ago for the first time, at Purplebrown Farmstead. Those trees are part of her long term plan to develop a cider orchard.
But her permaculture system also involves pigs, poultry, vegetables and mushrooms. Permaculture, Miller explained, involves creating a system that can be sustainable and self sufficient.
