Just because apple orchards are closing up for the season in the coming days does not mean you have to stop buying them locally. Orchards are down to many of their late-season varieties of apples like red and golden delicious, Cortland, Empire, and Macoun still on the trees with others already picked. Depending on how you want to enjoy your fruit, Hillside Apples owner Bill Roethle says there are ways you can enjoy your harvest long after he closes his doors this weekend.

Roethle says even if the weather did not always cooperate for picking apples, it did help make for a great crop this year for people to enjoy.