The High Desert Gardener spreads his love of farming and Indigenous foods on social media and through the Hózhó Center. AT AROUND 6 A.M., JOSHUA TODDY (DINÉ) WAKES UP, grabs his jacket, and steps outside to release 25 chickens from their coop onto his one-acre homestead in Nahodishgish, near Crownpoint. He grows tomatoes, kale, carrots, and other vegetables in eight raised beds—fed by an automated drip-irrigation system he developed using captured roof-runoff—near a small orchard. Passionate about gardening while growing up on the Navajo Nation, Toddy now shares his knowledge with more than 152,000 followers on TikTok as the High Desert Gardener. For the past 10 months, the former manager of an additive manufacturing lab at Navajo Technical University has also worked as on-site manager at the nonprofit Hózhó Voices of Healing Center, in Borrego Pass. In addition to teaching workshops and creating a garden of Indigenous foods, Toddy and the center’s staff are working on land restoration projects within the center’s 1,733 acres and re-establishing a flock of Navajo-Churro sheep.