OK, sorry, the word &quot;value&quot; is the issue here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;food&#x2F;why-salad-is-so-overrated&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;21&#x2F;ecc03d7a-4677-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;food&#x2F;why-salad-is-s...</a><p>Salad greens are not very nutritious.  They are good business though.<p>Its very very tough to do (impossible with current techniques), but local&#x2F;little&#x2F;vertical&#x2F;urban&#x2F;high tech ag needs to take on big ag in commoditized foods if we are going to increase food security and decrease water and energy usage.<p>Sweet potatoes, soybeans, and wheat are the type of staples that provide a good source of calories and nutrition.<p>Its sort of like Tesla saying they can only focus on luxury vehicles.  At first that&#x27;s true, but at some point the tech needs to break through to the larger market in order to make a big impact.<p>I don&#x27;t expect you or any other high tech growers to take on that challenge though, because it is very difficult research and engineering and marketing and extremely hard (next to impossible) to make the numbers add up with so much commodity competition.  But our current agricultural approach for commodities wastes water and land.<p>Until we get to that point its mainly just hipster wankery (like Tesla).