Ripe apples should almost fall into your hand with a gentle twist. Don’t damage the apple or the tree as you pick It may not seem natural, but when you pick an apple, you want to twist and not pull.

Ripe apples should almost fall into your hand with a gentle twist. Don’t damage the apple or the tree as you pick It may not seem natural, but when you pick an apple, you want to twist and not pull.

Sep. 8—LAKE LEELANAU — Local apple growers are shining up another strong harvest season — a welcome change for the region's agricultural sector following this summer's disastrous cherry crop. While ...

It takes almost no effort, apples are eye-level for almost everybody, tall and small. And if you time it well, the rows will be thick with fruit that is ripe and ready to eat right now, or much later.

And both Choice and Robertson orchards expect to have a few ripe or almost-ripe Honeycrisp apples, normally a late-season apple, ready to pick by Sept. 8. "It's a huge crop," Musil said.

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Sep. 8—LAKE LEELANAU — Local apple growers are shining up another strong harvest season — a welcome change for the region's agricultural sector following this summer's disastrous cherry crop.

And both Choice and Robertson orchards expect to have a few ripe or almost-ripe Honeycrisp apples, normally a late-season apple, ready to pick by Sept. 8. "It's a huge crop," Musil said.