The desire for wild fruit is growing. It offers us information on how to manage our orchards more naturally with less resources and intervention. Wild fruit comes from wild trees which experience our full environmental conditions without the luxury of irrigation in the summer, drained fields in the winter, shade nets on the hot days and pest management strategies when there’s an infestation. this exposure to the elements is how nature conducts research and the strong and resilient trees overcome the elements to create unique fruit. Collecting the seeds from this fruit can create more resilient, environmentally adapted trees in the future. Using regionally adapted species can limit the resources needed to produce these locally made products and can lessen the need for intensive and possibly detrimental land management methods.