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We have lots of wild fruits around our house too. Chokecherries, wild plums, golden currants, crabapples, an abandoned pear tree and the quince right next to it along the hayfield, wild roses, wild sumac(not the poison kind, the skunkweed kind, the berries have an extract similar to lemon juice)...

And this is why I like sheep better than goats. Still delicious, still can give milk, easier to keep in a pen. And hair sheep don't require shearing.

If you are in Colorado, and want to plant native wild flowers, https://www.prairiemoon.com/ might have something interesting. They do prairie plants and trees for a lot of settings.

The idea of raising tilapia reminded me of the duck-rice-fish integrated farm model. My climate could never ever do rice, but the idea is really interesting.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_Furuno

With bee numbers down, I wouldn't be surprised if that also affected fruit numbers.

We have this little old mini named Tony the Pony. He's an ornery old fart, we don't know exactly how old he is, other than probably over 15 years... He's gone from family to family to help teach kids horse manners. Because a 400lb horse can still hurt you pretty bad, but they probably won't kill...

I'd venture mini horses are also pretty slippery when they really want something on the other side of the fence.

My pole style chicken house utilized ten foot chain link panels for two sides, creating a 20×20 run. I have chicken wire on it too to keep in juvenile delinquents, and that chicken wire is coved out about a foot to keep out skunks and other diggers. The nice part is the doggy kennel gate means...

Truck toppers can be converted to weatherproof coops as long as you protect the sides from digging predators. I propped this one up on bales for my turkeys to brood under.

We do get serviceberry in the mountains on the western side

spring is the only green time here, but that makes it very special! Here it is in may. here's a local park in October here is my parents family homestead on the edge of the badlands, it's in the mountain shadow of the Little Snowy Mountains, and there are salt flats and fossils and all sorts of...

Will they handle-30°F ?

We did get a Doyle's thornless blackberry to grow, but it takes a lot of love because of the alkalinity, we give it plenty of acid building mulch, but it still doesn't quite live up to its reputation. We are in zone 4. 12-15 inches of rain annually. Soil hangs around 7.5 to 8, sandy, with hard...

There's a guy I remember from when I was a kid, forged some pretty neat knives local here. Got to see a few!

No blackberries, but raspberries grow here, I transplanted some wild ones from Roberts. When we go into the mountains we can find those best ever wild strawberries. There are no wild maples that I know of here, but plenty in townhome yards. To grow blueberries here, they would need a pot. You...

There are a few maples, but not sugar maples, and they won't grow wild here. Our soil isn't right for blueberries, I guess, where I am it's way to alkaline for blueberries to survive, I hear they like oak forests. We have only one native oak species, and it is very sparse. The Burr oak. Forests...

I wish there was maple syrup and blueberries here, you Easterners are lucky for those... I love the darker grade b syrup, it's got lots of robust flavor and plenty of good minerals. But honey, we have plenty of that! We used to get free honey from a guy who kept hives on grandma's homestead...