very well, and will keep for months in storage warehouses that maintain the proper temperature and humidity. That extends the season until 6 months later (March / April) when apples from the southern hemisphere are in season. Which means that from March to July fresh apples in U.S. grocery stores come from the southern hemisphere, mostly from Chile and New Zealand. That accounts for about 6% of annual U.S. apple consumption according to the U.S. Apple organization.



Favorite varieties and uses for apples

Two-thirds of the U.S. crop is eaten fresh and one-third goes to processed uses (apple juice, applesauce, apple butter, packaged apple slices, etc.) Apple varieties change over time. Red Delicious is still the most grown apple, making up most of the U.S. apple crop, but as consumerlot of applesauce!

61 percent of United States apples are eaten as fresh fruit.

39 percent of apples are processed into apple products; 21 percent of this is for juice and cider.

The top apple producing states are Washington, New York, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which produced over 83 percent of the nation's 2001-crop apple supply.

Apples are a great source of the fiber pectin. One apple has five grams of fiber.

In 2001 there were 8,000 apple growers with orchards covering 430,200 acres. (don't know how many of those are PYO).

The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit, but you normally buy 2 or 3 year plants at the nursery, so it's only 2