Your place is beautiful. Mine is somewhat like Mars, at over 9,000 feet, just east of some peaks, on the CO Rockies. The power grid’s about 3 miles away, there are usually high winds (gusts over 100 during winter), extreme cold most of the year (maybe high 30s at night now), and it’s a very dry place (precip. mostly snow, which can get very deep once in a great while). Building here is a little slow and rough, but it’s an adventure. ;-)
We’re only trying very short season vegetables in the new garden now. The sterile, hard-packed soil will take another year or two to fix up. Some of the vegetables will most likely need to be covered next year (mid-summer hailstorms, winds, freezes, etc.), but we’re going to find out as to which ones first.