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At Home in Nature -
Monday April 18, 2011 - By Mary
Farming in high altitude up on the Palmer Divide at 6000 feet and delivering in low - well, Denver - altitude at 5000 feet requires an understanding of the effects of altitude if you're not going to get a bad attitude.
High altitude is good for crops....
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Re Rustica -
Sunday April 12, 2009 - By fullofbeans
When we're looking for summer, we head down the mountain. When we look for winter, we head up hill. The increase in altitude leads to a decrease in temperature - there is less atmosphere to hold in heat! In Squaw Valley, the difference is...
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Re Rustica -
Monday March 09, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Altitude matters to crops in many ways. The higher elevations are cooler and grow several months behind schedule of the valleys: a farm that grows both at several hundred feet elevation and at the more than 3000 feet elevation of Squaw Valley can have winter...