If you live many dusty miles from a decent grocery store (and in the midst of a pandemic, in which your county has the second highest case rate in the state), you might find the notion of growing your own food a life-saver. That is, if you had access to the types of seeds that can thrive where summers are hot, temperatures extreme and rain sparse.
Protein would be welcome, too. And wool, for warm clothing and to sell. Maybe some sheep.
Welcome to Navajo Nation, an area overlapping parts of Utah,