Thank you everyone for the warm welcome.
My current orchard is quite small, only five trees, though I've managed larger orchards of several hundred trees. The trees I have now comes from a nursery that specializes in cold climate stock. It does get quite cold here, with temps down to -40 F/C, though that hasn't occurred during the past few years. The biggest problem I have is we often get a frost just after the trees have blossomed. So we'll get limited fruit that year. We had snow this year until mid May, so the trees were a little late blossoming, which was a good thing.
I think I'll be heading down to Tennessee once I reach retirement age. The winters are too long and harsh here, and as I get older, the more I dislike the cold. I've been scoping some locales in Mid-Tennessee, and I think it'll be a good fit for me...we'll see.