What plant would your choose to sell

[kg5]

Wonder if microgreens in a controlled environment can be called a product as from a small crops farmer?

There could be a market here on my islands for microgreens. Counted 12+ places to contact. It is getting interesting. As local is best here because we know about having to transport items to the islands. Even a stall outside our home.

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Good to hear from you Diane.

Three aussies on the same thread. It just gets better!

Thank you for the you tube info as still, do not always think computer.

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Sadly it looks like the microgreen angle is in an over supplied situation for us here. That also includes suppling the growers as well. Microgreen's industry is even trying to sell the "how to do info" of growing. To get this to work needs a lot of room to grow tons of microgreens per year. Your microgreens business needs to be at a point that you can out price the small growers with ease or it looks like it will not happen. Good to do the searches and get an answer.

[Orchidtinkerer]

Hey Kg,
it will be tough to find a market, I face that problem all the time. What is still profitable... Chickens get mass farmed, furniture gets mass produced, cars are made on production lines and it is hard to compete on a smaller scale with the same costs but less profit.
With more and more automation and soon self driving cars what will the millions of workers do instead. It's a flaw of capitalism and it affects every developed nation except for a few who realize an equal society is the happiest society. Some countries try to promote equality and as a result crime decreases and health gets better in the population.
But those countries just focussing on profit end up with an ageing population with lots of health problems, lots of crime and lots of unhappyness. Ok going a bit off topic, although it is the reason why it is tough to enter a new market and compete profitably long term.
Even Netflix has yet to make any profit at all. Not sure Uber is profitable yet yet they are becoming the market leaders by undercutting everyone else. It doesn't provide for a fair equal system imo and any job producing something will have a disadvantage becuase the competition is greater than on a service job.
Hope you find something that works for you. Orchids are in theory the last not mass-produced plant but that is starting to change with the recently very cheap phalaenopsis one can find at supermarkets.