Photos: Picking your own makes apples seem a little sweeter

Apple tasting
Ava, 3, has a taste of an apple that she just picked. She came to the apple farm with her mother, grandmother, aunt, and two cousins.
Yi-Chin Lee/MPR News

Although it is early in the fall apple season, apple growers are starting to harvest and invite guests to pick a variety of apples on their own. This week, the Aamodt's Apple Farm in Stillwater is open for visitors to pick Sweet Sixteen apples, and visitors took advantage of the good weather.

Photojournalist Yi-Chin Lee went out Tuesday on what one worker on the farm said was probably the farm's busiest weekday of this year -- so far.

Map: Explore Minnesota apple orchards

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