I love fruit picking ! There are many advantages to it.
Strawberries are my favorite to pick - although we've gone apple picking as well.
Fresh fruit are ripe for the picking. Produce from  fruit can often be found in country shops.
We have a small shop down the road that sells all sorts of fresh fruit.  I especially like it when they have watermelons.
I love in Washington.. where a majority of the apples from the trees are made into apple cider.
I've never been to Washington.  Is it a beautiful place?
Yes there are some apple tree farm there that use mechanical arms to shake the apples loose.  Its been quite controversial since it would be replacing the workers.
I can understand that.  Computers and machines are replacing a lot of workers around the world it seems.  How do you feel about that?
It probably would be a good thing to keep  up with the demand.  and if we could have it both waays to employ the people who need jobs that would be nice as well. 
Maybe through some training, they could have people run the machines and fix the machines and then that might help, plus they would be learning a skill as well.