Being just a few miles from Lake Erie, they already enjoy a moist coastal climate, but by planting corn around their fields and rye between rows as natural wind barriers, they have been able to raise the average field temperatures by five to seven degrees.
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Sustainably designed ( see Sustainable Design ) houses are generally sited so as to create as little of a negative impact on the surrounding ecosystem as possible, oriented to the sun so that it creates the best possible microclimate ( typically, the long axis of the house or building should be oriented east-west ), and provide natural shading or wind barriers where and when needed, among many other considerations.
