Climate

Year-Round Market

Nowadays, a wide variety of fruits and vegetables are usually available.

Spring-Time Garden

A time of pure joy is a spring morning picking young greens and peas.

Summer-Time Orchard

An apricot picked ripe from the tree in the warm summer sun...pure heaven!

Autumn Harvest

Sweet & mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, cranberries and Brussels Sprouts!

Winter

While winter compost feeds their roots, the oranges nourish our bodies.

23 Degrees and 27 Minutes
(Mar 13, 2018) Anonymous

The reason we get seasonal weather is due to the fact that the earth rotates just slightly off its axis -- 23 degrees and 27 minutes off the perpendicular to the plane of orbit -- and because the earth rotates around the sun, the winter solstice brings us the shortest daylight of the year where the sun has its lowest arch in the sky.

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Climate Change Is Transforming the World's Food Supply

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Podcast: Climate Change and Fruit Trees (Cornell University)

This podcast, featuring Cornell University Assistant Profesor, Greg Peck, from Cornell's School of Integrative Plant Science, addresses the question: How will the changing climate affect the way we grow fruit now and in the years to come?

Susan Poizner, the host of the Orchard People , leads the discussion addressing the impact of climate change on tree fruit production.

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