Microclimates

I’m in the process of looking and aiming to purchase around 100 acres to setup as a permaculture farm over next few years.

I’ve got big ambitions I’m doing lots of research going forward. One thing that I’m struggling to find much on. Maybe I’m using the wrong search terms or I am trying to achieve something completely new is designing the farm to create higher temps.

So micro climates happen all around us. I’m trying to figure out if there is a way for me to do Earth works and plantings on the land that will create a microclimate that stays atleast a few c warmer than outside the microclimate. So I can zone push things like almonds the land will be in the north east of England

I know water acts like a massive heat sink storing the heat of the sun and releasing it slowly.

The land will have a lot of lakes/ Swales as fish farming will be a massive part of what I want to do.

I’m thinking possibly dumping all the earth from
The lake digging on the border of the land to create a hill to plant a wind break of trees for privacy and to also retain water on my own land since rainfall should flow down the hills and into my Swales.

Although this could potentially create more cold as heat rises and cold air falls down? - not sure

Does anyone have any ideas and input about this? Point me in the right direction on where to go looking for facts about this?

Thanks

I would talk to a professional permancuturist.. they are very good at looking at land and how microclimates can be created. .. and they definitely understand water!!

Regarding water, you can see if you can find Sepp Holzer's book "Desert or Paradise" in your library (or buy it).
Here is a thread on it:
https://permies.com/wiki/21232/Desert-Paradise-Sepp-Holzer

Water masses work great as an accumulator of heat.
The effect is even greater on islands, for example the isle of Mainau on Lake Constance (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) where you find plants that otherwise would have to be in hothouses in that region. (https://www.mainau.de/en/attractions.html)