Why?

There are fewer pests to deal with in the desert in general. From what I've seen driving past area farms the main investment is canopies presumably to help retain a more humid environment and reduce the amount of sunlight.

As an individual I can easily have a little greenhouse outside, I certainly have enough space.

It's something I intend to do eventually, but it's pretty far down the priority list at this time.

With a greenhouse (or a canopy), do you have enough water to grow even one person's needed supply of food? If not, you're importing water, just in a different form.

Or are you part of the Cadiz Water company? If so, yes, you probably have enough water.

> I suspect, though, that you're not trying to grow your own food. If you were, you might find the desert to be less suitable to human occupation than Minnesota.

Ahem - Yuma. Where your salad probably came from (maybe with some food-borne illness thrown in, but that's another discussion)...

Sure. newnewpdro said Cadiz in the Mojave, though. They grow something there (pistachios?), but in very small quantity. It's not Yuma. They don't have the Colorado as a water source there.

Oddly enough, I go to Cadiz (California) on vacation sometimes...

> Oddly enough, I go to Cadiz (California) on vacation sometimes...

What do you do there for vacation? I wasn't aware there was anything out there other than some industry like the evaporative ponds on the wikipedia page...

Watch trains. Be alone. (Hey, I'm an introvert.)

And there's some kind of orchards, though they aren't very big.

The only reason agriculture is successful in Arizona is because they pump all the water out of the Colorado River to irrigate everything. As a result, the people in Mexico, farther downstream, have been screwed out of using this river.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, there definitely is a lot of agriculture in the California and Arizona deserts.