Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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🍐 Perry pears ripen in a two-hour window, bruise or explode on impact, and some varieties won't fruit until the tree is 50 years old. The orchards are disappearing, the knowledge is disappearing with them — and yet a handful of people are still out here doing it there making perry the hard way (and when you taste it you'll know why)

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