Got to prune every year to get bigger fungus free apples, but the fruit wood can be chunked and sold in bags to meat/cheese smokers

Yeah if you venture into value added products like sauces, dried fruit, and jams, you’ll be taking on more labor but also getting more revenue.

Probably lowers the return on a percentage basis though.

Not sure if it's that easy. You might find that the apples you grow are small and sour. Often have bugs or don't look nice.

People don't pay for apples like this. Maybe you could use it to make apple sauce I guess.

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Not sure if it's that easy. You might find that the apples you grow are small and sour. Often have bugs or don't look nice. 

People don't pay for apples like this. Maybe you could use it to make apple sauce I guess.