From the Fields

Pear harvest is getting started in Mendocino County and by this week, everybody will be harvesting in the county. People are concerned about water and trying to ration and use any water that they have wisely. Some people are not going to have any more water due to curtailments. That is definitely something different. I think people are just hoping to be able to finish out the year successfully.

We have Bartlett pears, but there's other varieties, some specialty pears, that people are harvesting. People have already harvested their Starkrimsons, a red variety, and then comes Bartletts, followed by Bosc pears. We're just getting started, so it's hard to say how things are really going to turn out in the end. The harvest usually goes through the month of August.