Ep. 161 - With Callery Pears the Problem is the Solution

Thriving The Future Podcast

How I turned my pasture of thorny Callery pears into an Asian pear orchard by bark grafting and cleft grating.

Do a Google search on Callery pears and feel the hatred.

Bradford pears, planted nearly everywhere, are usually grafted onto Callery pear rootstock. Callery pears are thorny pears that I have never seen growing any fruit. On my land they spread by suckers - literally everwhere.

In this episode I share about How I turned my pasture of thorny Callery pears into an Asian pear orchard by bark grafting and cleft grating.

Check out the show notes for the pictures of how I did this.

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