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Today, July 28, 2013, the fun-loving people of Courtland, California participate in a parade and host a festival paying homage to pears. They call it the Courtland Pear Fair (pearfair.org) and the event celebrates Bartlett pears, which the town began harvesting back on July 16. At 9 a.m. sharp people line up to purchase pear pies, and the first 25 kids whose parents get on the list participate as pear blossoms. How cute!<\/p>\n
Throughout the Central Valley and into northern California the “gift of the gods” is being picked and shipped, and the delicious news for pear lovers is that it’s a beautiful crop in 2013. Sweet, juicy and only slightly less fruit (3rd largest) than the all-time record setting season, California pear<\/a> growers \u00a0are pleased as they work to harvest Bartletts, Bosc, Seckel, Comice and Red pear varieties now and in the upcoming months. Pear growers are a small, hand-picked breed that usually follow in the footsteps of their elders. Most are third-to-fifth generation growers who have a passion for pears and say that farming is in their blood.\u00a0Pictured are several examples:<\/p>\n Elliott Family (Stillwater Orchards) Today, July 28, 2013, the fun-loving people of Courtland, California participate in a parade and host a festival paying homage to pears. They call it the Courtland Pear Fair (pearfair.org) and the event celebrates Bartlett pears, which the town began harvesting back on July 16. At 9 a.m. sharp people line up to purchase pear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChuck Baker – fifth-generation pear farmer
\nChris Frieders – fifth-generation Sacramento Valley pear orchard grower
\nDavid Weiss fourth generation farmer with a degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, who farms pears and wine grapes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"