Charlie Sipes grew up on the family-owned Blue Ribbon Farm in Longmont, learning to tell the time of year by what was growing. The farm at 10147 Hover St. opened to the public 33 years ago in 1992.
Longmont Times-Call: Things to do in Longmont on Sunday, March 22: Farmfest at Sunflower Farm
Farmfest: 11 a.m. Sunday, Sunflower Farm, 11150 Prospect Road, Longmont. Hang out with all of your favorite farm animals and meet our baby lambs and goats. See the free-roaming chickens, peacocks and ...
Things to do in Longmont on Sunday, March 22: Farmfest at Sunflower Farm
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...
I eventually found a tree with a spiral lightning mark and it followed the spiral grain exactly. One tree, of course, proves nothing. "But why should the tree spiral? More speculation here: Foliage tends to be thicker on the south side of the tree because of better sunlight.