Meet Our Growers
Like the fruit itself and the landscapes on which the trees sit, the people who grow pears come in a wide variety of sorts, from all kinds of backgrounds. Some growers were born to be fourth-generation farmers, while others stumbled into orchard life much later.
Pear growers wear many hats, from tending to the orchards through the long days of summer to pruning their trees in the heart of winter—even in the snow. What they all share is a deep passion for growing the best pears possible, whether that’s continuing the tradition of heirloom varieties from a century ago or using the newest technology to cultivate trees that bear more fruit, more efficiently.
More than 700 growers work the land in Washington and Oregon, producing around 87% of the fresh pears grown in the United States. As they prune, pick, and pack, the pear growers of the Northwest bring their backgrounds in science, teaching, agriculture, and office work to the mission of producing better fruit, each contributing unique attributes and information to the collective goal of producing the world’s best pears.
Meet some of the growers that help make USA Pears so special!
Nobody knows pears better than our growers! See for yourself: