That is what it takes for us to come up with a variety of fruit and nuts for this area. Unfortunately, many of us have had a very bad experience with growing things from other areas. I like to use wild seedlings, Canadian and Russian fruits as a base. Then i give away my research and varities for free. No patents, which means it benefits you and everyone else right now. If Mike at 39thparallel.com will help me get varities out there by mass grafting then anyone can have them. I hope other nurseries do the same. The nice thing is once you trade or buy scion you can graft 100,000 clarks crabapples if you want bypassing the normal processes. That is great for growers like you and me. The more individuals growing varities i developed the less people pay for fruit. In theory if you have a field of wild callery rootstocks you could graft those to pears for free. Grow the family blackberry and clarks crabapple, canadian prarie cherries and hopefully soonyour fig varities. Total cost $0
Mike has been experimenting with wine berries we received several years ago. I cannot grow normal raspberries easily.