 Apples don't live forever, but apples that you might find on the grocery store shelf that are sold as fresh might be as much as 10 months old. Oh, yeah, it can be coming up to its first birthday. And, I mean, think about it. We know when apples are in season, and yet we happily go to the store and, you know, this time of year, June, July, and buy a fresh Washington State apple forever.