My mother used to freeze unbaked pies, and they were good. I want to do other things with the apples too, so I don't want them all in pies. I canned some a few years ago, but they got pretty soft. I have a large area for garden, and I cover half with tarps and solarize them, then all I have to do is swithch the tarp to the other side, and till and plant, but with just under 500 Irises, 23 horses, a bunch of day lilies and working, I had all the garden I could manage this year. (I'm not as young as I used to be, lol) I did plant some winter squash that I hybridized, but that's all. I'm not going to work this year, so maybe next spring I'll get it done.
