Actually... Your endless cold winters help to retain fertility in the soil... And make growing most veggies tons easier...
You may not be able to grow our traditional crops like sweet potatoes and watermelons...
But cool season crops... practically most of the growing season...
Down here... all that subtropical sunlight cooks the organic matter out of the soil... and when the soil is thin... I'm very jealous of your clay... holds moisture, holds nutrients...
But... I wouldn't want to be up there in the cold, snow and ice.... Snows once every few years here... that's too much.
