Uhhhh...just ask yourself what grows in the Arizona desert——besides cactus, of course. I lived there for 3 years——better to “grow” solar power there.
If you lived in Gila Bend you should have seen farming there; there is farming along the rivers in the desert- not sure how you missed it. Farming is what caused Phoenix and many other desert towns in Arizona to be settled- at least the ones on the Gila and Salt Rivers. There is still a lot of farming in the Valley- but much of it has had houses built on it. When real estate gets high enough that the farmer cannot possibly make that much in a life time- they sell. I don’t blame them- it is their land after all; but still I wonder if we should be converting farm land to other uses. Future generations will need to eat. It is mostly desert that is true and that is why it annoys me that they diverted farm ground for this project. Miles and miles of desert and they just have to put this in an alfalfa field? Why?