Yikes 70 mph - I best clear off my porch although I think we may get the tail end of it only. I do have my battery operated candles locked and loaded. Thankfully 24 is not on tonight as I may lose satellite. Now THAT would be a disaster. I can’t miss Jack!
I’ve decided it will be hard to grow things here as it’s always either windy, freezing, HOT or something. LOL Although, I think of the pioneer women and they really had it tough. I love Little House On The Prairie which I watch at work sometimes. :)
A well placed fast growing windbreak can reduce the wind effect to 1/3 of the open space wind speed.
I also grow hybrid willow and hybrid poplars. They grow 6 to 8 feet a year and will make firewood in less than 8 years.
Sometime I will have to post some pictures of the difference in growth rates - white pine vs hybrid willows.
Only about 8 miles from where I sit is the little patch of land that my great great grandparents farmed from about 1849 and on. It's very rocky and nothing grows there now except scrub cedar. And I think of them raising 11 kids there and feeding them! It makes me feel really lazy and inept. Although I know that by today's standards I am neither.