It’s a great joy to plant trees. It is a type of activity that is always rewarding. You need to bring with you a sense of wonder and patience and wait for the outcome. When I planted these northern pecans on my hillside, I was not very confident of the outcome only because there was no one who had done this before me. I had nothing to go on. There were northern pecans but there was no one that planted seedling northern pecans from specific early ripening trees far north in its range. Some were cultivated in an orchard and some were found in the wild. Either way, planting the trees on this sand dune type of hill with thin topsoil was tricky because of the wind and dryness. In the above right of this image is American persimmon. This particular seed source was selected from orchards where people had rich varieties of them full of early ripening fruit. Both the pecan and persimmon required a certain seed source to be successful in Michigan mainly because our season is much shorter and we have very cloudy weather. It turned out that these seedlings can make new crops possible in areas where they could not be grown before. Both the orchard and seedling forest can now be grown from these new seed sources. The future becomes land use and how to deploy these new crops on a broader scale so others can enjoy them as well. It could be creativity is at a premium too and this might be the real barrier to adoption of new crops on a broader scale. It could happen. I have confidence and patience along with a sense of wonder for the human race just like the trees at my farm.