Cold Snap Pear Set To Entice Ontario Fruit Consumers

We love apples in the fall, crispy and freshly picked from local orchards. But let's also celebrate another autumn fruit favourite that sometimes gets ignored: the pear. It's about to experience something of a Renaissance in Ontario too.

A relative of the apple – some would say its grandfather in the familial lineage – the pear has been cultivated for several thousand years.

They are a bit trickier to grow than apples and not as abundant, but even so there are hundreds of varieties of pears grown in temperate regions around the world.

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