How to Pick and Can Pears 

I'm so excited that you showed us how to do this because my pear tree is bearing fruit the first year and I don't want to mess up my three pears

We did 21 quarts yesterday, we have about that left to go probably. We were blessed by a friend who let us pick all of her tree. We are sooooo grateful for that!

Danny & Wanda make a wonderful (pear) pair. LOL Blessings!

I found an abandoned pear tree this week. I was only able to harvest a couple of dozen. This tree is old and around 30ft tall, it's loaded in pears. Super excited about your long pole picker! Gonna make one and go back to help that tree lose some more weight. Thank you for posting this video!

Thanks for that bit of information on knowing when your pears are ripe enough to pick. I wasn't sure. Great video. Thank you bunches.

what a beautiful video. As you picked the pears and the roosters crowed, the grown was moist I could smell my grandmother's farm I haven't been on in 50 years. You brought back such memories...the pears look golden, I bet they are delicious

Nothing better than picking pears with the one you love! Danny's picker tool is fabulous.

Thanks for the reminder. Mom used to wrap the pears in tissue paper and every day I'd squeeze them, see if they were ready. Bartletts up in New York. Growing over the cesspool.😊

This is new to me about pears ripening from the inside out. Now I understand why, unlike my apples, the pear core was too mushy sometimes in past years. Thank you for educating us! I also like that ingenious pear picking device. EVA!!! :D ;)

Pastor Danny and Wanda this is the best homestead video in RU-vid! I have been learning through others also yet once again Deep South Homestead is surely the best! God bless!

Beautiful jars of canned pears. So good to see a man helping in the kitchen the way you do Danny. God bless

THANK YOU, DANNY!!! I tried to make that skwash horn that my dad used to make when I was a kid...and I couldn't figger it out, until you saved this lost musical instrument from being lost art!!! and love the pear pickin lesson! Keep teachin'! I'm learnin'! A Combs, From Kentucky

All these great videos are very much appreciated. Bringing back lots of memories and relearning things I used to know. I recently retired and bought a 1 acre urban lot in central Illinois. Getting my garden in and planting my orchard and looking forward to getting back to the good life. You two will be with me every step of the way. Thank you so much.

What a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

I got a fruit picker from my grandparents stuff after they passed. It works great, I just picked about 20 pounds of apples this evening.

I really miss living in the country. This reminds me of the good feeling when you have canned your harvest. Life in town is not the same. Thanks for sharing.

Something very satisfying hearing those pears land inside the can!

Thank you! My neighbor gave me permission to pick pears from her tree and now, thanks to you, I can harvest the pears that are too high up for me to reach. WooHoo!

Team work makes the dream work. I love it. Janice

Love the pear picker idea

I loved your video. Welcome to youtube family. I will be canning cinnamon pears and pears for baking in about a week. Love your homestead.

Those canned pears looks beautiful and yummy! I love watching both of you working together so good!

This was a very helpful video that provided more information that I needed about pears and canning pears. Thanks so much!

They are beautiful.

Lovely job "all the way through"! Beautiful and bountiful. Growing and canning your harvest is a lot of work however the harvest is well worth all that needs to be done. You know exactly what is in your jar, how it was prepared and oh how tasty! Your pears are just beautiful. Thank you as always for sharing your process. It's always a fine journey watching you. I appreciate all that you do as do your viewers. Both you Danny and Wanda make great teachers and those who are trying to learn and haven't had experiences will be able to learn from you as leaders. Many parents never did these survival skills and many, even older people are working on a learning curve. So what you do is so important even for us who lived and walked the walk. However, you both are so knowledgeable you share things even I am not aware of. The ripening of pears for example is just one of those new methods I wasn't aware of as I never had a pear tree. Making things out of what you have is also a real skill. Having been an art teacher for 40 years with barely any funding is a skill that no one teaches but is acquired. Teaching with a set of skills that demands that you learn how to write, find materials, go to the community, even support the community by teaching your students to work together to become philanthropist for the community is just another way to turn the whole system around and make it work. Finding corporations, companies, foundations, even recycled materials throughout your school community is an awesome experience. If you don't have help create programs teaching children how and what they need to do in order to make "things work"! This is why I wanted to share how I understand what you do is so important for our generations of learners and providers for our families out there. Hard work is the essence of our society and I want you both to know how teaching skills to those who want to learn and make a better life for themselves and their families is so important for the growth of our society. Best wishes and continued success.

Oh man, my youngest daughter is wanting to go visit Auntie Wanda and share some pears! She is a pear-a-holic! Absolutely beautiful.

Thank you for that lovely video and sharing how you can your pears, exactly what I was looking for.

That's a lot of jars of beautiful pares. Love seeing them.

Pears are fixing to be picked here and I'm canning these and making my mommas pear mincemeat !! Yummy! Thanks for another great video!

Great Job you two. I am glad I found your channel.

First timer here. Didn’t know you could refrigerate first, set out and then can. Thank you for sharing.

i got the tip in another clip, to cook the pears for like 30 seconds before bathing with citric water, which will make the skin fall apart easily

Loved this video

nice job you two, thank you for sharing

Coffee can on a stick! I'm showing my husband this. He thought I was crazy when I said this was how my grandmothers got pears out of the tops of the trees.

Those are beautiful

Man that was a great video on preserving them pears i love i guess yall do too.keep sharing the old ways of homesteading and farming

The video I've been waiting for! Thank you so much for posting this~appreciate you both very much.

They look so good!

Admiration time ...filled jars are so pretty

Awesome video 👍👍👍

Thanks for the can on a stick idea- now I’m excited to get all those tree top 🍐

thank you so much.. one of the most reliable best information... just thank you..

Thanks for the tip on picking the pears. Love pears. Looks like that storm we had here is sitting on your coastline now. It gave us a lot of rain that we needed, and humidity that we didn't. Good looking harvest.

this is awesome...what a great idea! keep up the great work guys and thanks for sharing 😀

This video comes at a perfect time for me. We just bought and moved into our dream farm (YAY! I am so thankful and excited) and on the farm is two pear trees and I was looking at them yesterday thinking how we will know when the pears are ripe. I picked one and although it tasted good it was so hard. I was thinking that maybe if I picked them and let them sit for a bit they might soften up...and now after seeing your video, I know what I need to do!! I've canned pears and pear jam (from farmer's market) for years but never harvested them myself so the information you have in this video is very helpful!!

food not waisted, love it!

This will be very helpful! We can pears and I have learned a lot from watching this! Thanks for posting!

That's some pretty pears!

This was the perfect time for me to see this video!! I watched it for the first time last night, and it was all I could do to not go outside and lift up on some pears to see if they are ready!! We usually don't start collecting pears til September here in Arkansas. I have 2 trees that are LOADED. One of the trees fell several years ago, but it didnt die, and it produces the biggest pears!! Probably because the chickens like to gather under there and keep it fertilized! :)

Beautiful !!!!!

They are beautiful pears! Your piggies🐷 will love those peals😋

VERY clever! Kudos! Loved this video and all your videos!

By the way, i made your pear picker & used on a friends tree. It works great!! Thanks for the idea.

Excellent, just excellent 🍐🍐

This was very helpful. I like visuals. Reading is good but I like to see it. We have a semi-dwarf pear tree & I usually make unsweetened pear sauce but I want to try this. Thanks very much.

beautiful!

Learn something new Thank you

Great video! We learned a ton! Those roosters crowing in the beginning were shouting the good news for you! TERRIFIC BOUNTY!

What a neat way to pull those pears off that top tree!! loved the video thanks for sharing!

I leave the towel over top of the hot jars, because if a cold breeze hits them, while they are hot, they can bust. (Handed down tip from grandma..)

Makeshift? Heck no! That is Southern technology. Why would anyone go buy something when it can be made so cheaply & easily? You are a genius, Danny. I'm old enough that climbing a ladder is not an option. Had to let a lot of plums go to waste because they were to high up in the tree.

they looks beautiful!! I bet they taste good too.

I really need to start canning.

The pears you canned are certainly more appetizing than the flour I canned this morning! Your pears are glorious!

Been canning pears this week my self. Only one more batch to go. And I don't even like pears, doing them for the grand baby's they love them. We have also been feeding the pig with the scraps, but never thought to make jelly with them. Thanks

great job i just did apples frost got my pear trees,this year!

Love the makeshift picker! For me, there's not a prettier sight than canned goods on the counter cooling and chopped -stacked wood.

These look super yummy.

I use the peels and cores to make syrup for pancakes and waffles just because we don't eat much jelly! Lol! After that, they can go to the critters for feed.

One of my favorite ways to use still firm (just slightly underripe) Bosc or Anjou pears from the grocer is as poached pears (great with [usually vanilla or butter pecan] ice cream as a topping on angel food cake and similar). Given that so many of the fireblight "resistant" varieties are "Oriental" (hybrids of European and Asian, usually the Chinese white/sand pear) and have inherited the Chinese pear's hard texture and lack of flavor, this seems like a useful technique for southern pears. I usually use black currant juice or syrup (lot of Polish immigration in my area, so this fruit wasn't entirely forgotten during the war against White Pine Blister Rust as in most of the USA); I believe sweetened wine or a ginger + vanilla syrup are traditional, and I saw one French-style cooking show where the guy used stale coffee (& sugar). Poaching is low and slow to encourage the (peeled & cored but usually not sliced, because the ~candied whole fruit is considered aesthetically pleasing) pears to absorb the flavor of the syrup, but since canned food soaks in the syrup until the can is opened, I think it might be worth trying to slice the pears slightly thinner and actually can in a flavored syrup. Thoughts?

Good video, love me some pear cake.

You McGyvere'd that well lol Good job ! handy dandy idea

Hello Danny, Wanda!! Just what I needed to know...when the pears r ready to pick, QUESTION??? It’s July, pears r small and already starting to fall from the tree...is this a normal time for the pears to be ready??? I live n Oklahoma. Also I am sooo sooo excited, y’all just don’t know how excited I got when I watched this video, and saw it doesn’t take a pressure canner to put up pears, it makes me sooo happy to know I can preserve them by way of water bath!!! Thank y’all sooo much

COOL.You guys Rock lol

You can use some of those peels to make pear vinegar for eating/cleaning too!

Awesome.Thanks to u two now I know how to can pears.Thanks for spreading ur valuable knowledge.God Bless.Are u guys getting flooded out there yet.We got some rain.God Bless.

Love pears. I want more fruit trees on my property. I have 3 small apple trees, too small to produce any apples yet, but I want figs, pears, and any other fruit I could get to grow here!

Hi. My suggestion is to put some foam or a dish cloth in the coffee can to prevent bruising the pears when you collect them. Thanks. Pears are getting ready in Victoria BC Canada.

Danny you can pick up large fruit and vegie cans at most places that serve hot meals

so pretty... nice job.

At first I was thinking you shouldn't refrigerate pears BUT when you said a new method and only a couple of days that suddenly made sense. I'm in apple country. We always say wait to pick until after the first LIGHT frost for the apples to have the best flavor. Unfortunately, for the general public the major growers have the fields picked long before the apples are anywhere near ripe.

we try to use no sugar... for any preserves.. but we do rinse them and put them into lemon juice water before we preserve them

I'm so glad I saw this... Ms. Wanda can I can these in plain water? Thank you so much!!🍐🍐

Danny, I just saw a lady SCALDING her pairs in boiling water for 20 seconds, then puts them in cold water and rubs them and all the skins FALL OFF. I have been peeling mine like you, and I'm going to try her method. I had been thinking it may work that way, and was going to try it even before the vid.. Take care.

YUM!

Hi Danny and Wanda! I'm back after taking a break from RU-vid to have my latest baby... we also just bought our homestead last month!!! We have 2 pear trees that ware well established but I'm worried I may be too late to harvest! I'm in Georgia... south east Georgia. What do you think? Have I missed the cut off and canning time? Thanks for all this info, Jenn

Hey Mrs Wanda do you have a recipe for pears called Ruby's Pear Marmalade? It had grated pears, crushed pineapple and cherries in it. I have looked and asked all over the place.

Thank you for sharing. I always wanted to know how to can. What is the name of the pears that you said worked best for canning? Continue to be blessed!

Hi Danny. I bought 1 Keiffer pear tree to plant in my small back yard. (1) Do I need to buy a 2nd tree in order to get make the pear tree produce fruit? Thxs. (2) When I get ready to put it in the ground, what soil mix do I use, and what type of fertilizer should I use?

Boy that looked like an arm work out Mr Danny! Great looking preserves though!

Wanda my mom taught me to make a cinnamon spiced pears by adding a few red hots in each jar while canning. Have you tried that? It's awesome tasting and gives them a pretty pink color

thank you for this video. I have a pear tree and want can them. I'm going to share your video in my facebook wolf entertainment Reno page. I think this video is very in formative.

I haven't been able to buy a pear that will ripen without rotting for the last 3 years. Their hard when we get them. So we try to wait them out ,but they are hard one day and rotten the next. I had some rock solid ones this morning and i gave up. Mixed them with apples to make sause and canned them. I love pears but What good is it if they spoil.

Nice example of 'Where There's a Will There's a Way'. I would love to know what varieties of pears you are growing.

We are expecting our 1st freeze Tuesday. Should I pick the years and peaches and allow to ripen indoors. Don't know how hard the freeze will be. Tarpping the tomatoes as they are just now starting to ripen

I guess you didn't get the big storm they where talking about? Did you get the corn done or is it still drying in the field? Oh and the pears look real good. Hope you guys have a good day.

What do you do for fire blight?

Thank You Wanda /Danny you get the bad rains and wind they were calling for?

Have you ever considered using the pear scraps to make cider or vinegar?