I need some advice regarding starting a small business. - I live in Canada. I don't want to start anything coding or app related. I love working with plants and vegetables. I don't want to go through the traditional farming route but I also want to commercially grow food that will give me a good profit at the end of the day.

I have always liked the idea of a tech based greenhouse where I can automate the process of humidity, temperature, environment, moisture control, etc. Being that Canada has most of its land in the cold zone, a self controlled green house seemed like an good alternative in and around places where regular agricultural methods won't be able to be carried out. And we have so much of that kind of land.

The question is with this greenhouse process I know I'll be restricted to a certain amount of crops that I can grow. I was wondering what advice would you have for me where I can do this by growing x and y crops which I can not only supply locally, but I can export as well which would be in high demand.

Obviously there are fast growing crops and then there are these like Wasabi, Saffron, Vanilla, etc that take a lot of time and effort to produce but are highly worth it. And not just North American crops but other crops from around the world such as Jinseng and Ashwagandha which again are also time intensive. So I was thinking of primarily starting off with faster producing crops that will have a high demand and then on the side focusing on the longer time taking herbs and crops.

I was also thinking I could source my products both to market and to restaurants as well.

Then there is the question of capital which I am not too sure of how to acquire since doing it out of pocket in this economy would be quite hectic.

Love to hear what your thoughts are. Thank you.