Tom Hattrup grows six pear varieties and focuses on the fresh market. Photo by Madeleine Warner Harvest is a whirl at Tom Hattrup’s orchard. As soon as the Bartlett pears are picked, his crew does a first pick in three different blocks of Galas. “Then when that scrambling’s done, we’ll run over and pick the d’Anjous that are on three different orchards, come back, and pick our second pick of Galas,” Hattrup relates. And so it continues seven days a week for about two months until his last Pink Lady apples are in the bin. He has orchards at three […]