Our Organic Pears
The heavy clay soils of the Low Weald are ideal for our main pear variety, the fabulously sweet Conference. These pears are great to eat fresh or perhaps to poach in a little red wine as a delicious autumn pudding.
There is a saying ‘Plums and Pears you plant for your heirs’. Given that all the orchards are between twenty and fifty years old, it is not such a surprise that they are still producing a reasonable and regular crop.
Pears generally perform well under an organic management regime and ours appear to bear this out. We also produce that classic Christmas pear, Doyenne du Comice. So juicy that the only place to eat these when they are just right is in the bath! The varieties William and Concorde also grow well here and in 2023 for the first time, our crop was picked and distributed by London food charity, The Felix Project.
