As a guy who wants to spend his hard earned money on fancy fruit instead of earning money from fruit, let me offer my opinion: Your skills are more valuable than the literal fruit of your labor.
I live in the suburbs of Cleveland, OH and struggling to keep a one acre orchard productive because of a lack of knowledge/experience/time. I would gladly pay 5 figures per season for ‘orchard management’ to someone who knows what they’re doing. I’m talking higher skill plant care - planting/grafting/soil and disease care/general troubleshooting, not the grunt work of mowing etc that can be done by a landscaping crew.
No capital costs, no paperwork, no quotas, no marketing/sales. Just optimize for taste/health as if you’re growing for your own family.
I don’t think it would be hard to find a handful of similar customers in the outskirts of any major city where there is a good balance of wealth/population density and available land.
I posted a job ad here a few year ago, and got crickets… There is demand for this skill if anyone is looking to cash in from their hobby.