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> 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
by cr0sh 7y ago
> 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)...
- newnewpdro 7y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted, there definitely is a lot of agriculture in the California and Arizona deserts.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoSure. 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...
- newnewpdro 7y ago> 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...
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoWatch trains. Be alone. (Hey, I'm an introvert.) And there's some kind of orchards, though they aren't very big.
- magduf 7y agoThe 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.