I would take the opposite perspective - I would think that artisanal&#x2F;organic gardening, in <i>particular</i> would benefit from automation.  Automation will give us the ability to spend significant periods of time <i>on each specific piece of produce</i>, in a way that no human being ever could.  In particular, with organic gardening, you can completely eliminate the need for insecticides and pesticides <i>AND</i> not rely on inherently insect&#x2F;pest resistant produce (which can be innately toxic) by growing in clean rooms.<p>The key reasons to automate, is it allows us to make this type of food available to masses for fractions of the cost of what it would take for a human to grow it.