The hottest air temperature ever reliably recorded in a desert was 134 degrees F in Death Valley of the Mojave Desert in California on July 10, 1913.
This blending of immigrant agricultural practices with Native American traditions in the mountains and foothills of North Carolina resulted in a distinctive regional agricultural heritage.
THE CONVENTION IN A NUTSHELL. 7. Mountain farming. Slightly more than four percent of the population in the Alpine area still live on agriculture and, in the last 25 years, the agricultural population has decreased by over 40 percent. The number of farms run as a secondary activity is plummeting.