Field and Garden: Weather, markets and an upcoming workshop

On Christmas Day, the high temperature reached 32 degrees in Carrington, 12 degrees warmer than normal, though still far from the record high of 44 degrees set in 1999.

Our coldest Christmas occurred in 1996, when the daytime high was minus 17 degrees, and the nighttime low dipped to minus 28.

Looking back over the past year, the highest temperature recorded was 89 degrees on August 1, while the l...