My players can currently farm anywhere and none of their crops die and turn into dead bushes no matter where they are.

I would attribute part of this to the new biomes, which are not covered under the current build, but I am also getting an error:

Could not pass blockGrowEvent Java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: Desert_Hills

So I would assume that error is stopping the check somewhere.

This is because the Desert_Hills biome doesn't exist anymore in 1.18. Merging #296 should fix this.

#296 merged, should be fixed.