We were part of a co-op that bought from a local orchard. If you contact a few nearby orchards, they should be able to give you their pricing. We bought our cases during a year where there was an early hail storm, so they had a lot of fruit at very low prices that was hail damaged. The hail damage made the fruit look less pretty, but didn't impact the quality of the fruit otherwise. We also lived near a public orchard, where anyone could take apples, so that was nice too
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