wild saskatoons finally ripe

wild saskatoons finally ripe, for the next couple weeks the bushes all around our place have these tastey purple berries. they're smaller than cultivar ones, but they flower and ripen on a slightly different schedule and they have the most flavour. I'll collect a pail for seed extraction (and jam) and we'll have stock to grow in the nursery next year and keep our seed shop supplied. native in Manitoba, no one planted these and they're common around the forest margins here, with chokecherry, wild raspberry and beaked hazel. i think cold hardy to zone 2 (we get some -40 here every winter), saskatoon (amelanchier alnifolia) never have any winter injury.