[familyop]

Thank you for the greenhouse plans!

"Why do the trees grow in that cold?"

...only pines and aspen, and those, only at certain elevations or with much help. They're tough trees--all little runts, too.

"Would the cabbage family?"

...if they're planted early enough, watered enough and shielded from the summer hailstorms.

"Or find a clearing to plant the vegetables in?"

I live on a high basin. There are a few very, very short plants (mostly a an inch or two high) that goats and caribou would like (although eaten mostly by deer and elk), but the trees are on the lower sides of the surrounding peaks. The winds gust frequently to over 60 miles per hour.

Many of the folks who've moved here to be "ranchers" since the just before and after 1900 haven't seen fit to try fertilizing and growing good hay to hold the soil together (mostly movie stars, moguls and heirs). They have to keep that "overgrazing" canard going. Over about 70 years ago, though, much larger numbers of people grew all kinds of vegetables up here.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Many of the folks who’ve moved here to be “ranchers” since the just before and after 1900 haven’t seen fit to try fertilizing and growing good hay to hold the soil together (mostly movie stars, moguls and heirs). They have to keep that “overgrazing” canard going. Over about 70 years ago, though, much larger numbers of people grew all kinds of vegetables up here.<<<

That is such a waste.

Soon they will wish they were growing vegetables again.

We have so much to re-learn and set right again.