The Power of Local Food with Wen-Jay Ying

You’ve never heard of the company behind one in four American salads.

Wen-Jay Ying runs Local Roots NYC, a farm subscription service she started after Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips told her, backstage in a pink Power Ranger costume, to stop chasing the next disaster and think about what her own city actually needed. She knows way too much about the industrial food system that came after: Taylor Farms grows the pre-cut lettuce behind roughly one in four American salads and white-labels it to grocery chains that never have to say where it came from.