A lot of farmers love the land. I had loved ones who kept boutique farming between chemo treatments. Nurturing living things to do cool stuff for people (like be food and clothes and drugs) is gratifying. People just want to do that sometimes.

he can’t be that far off the beaten track

He just needs to be somewhere with cell phone service.

There are rural areas of the world where people still use oxen to pull their plows rather than a tractor, but these days they have cell phones.