Pears in Farmstead World — crop in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
The pear is a rose-family orchard tree like the apple, but its fruit ripens from the inside out, so it is picked hard and softens after it leaves the tree.
Cider pears are a different proposition from dessert pears: small, hard and full of tannin, too bitter to eat and exactly what a press wants.
A pear tree lives longer than an apple tree, and perry — the pear’s answer to cider — is still made wherever those old orchards survive.