I've lived in some places where you can find local-farmer markets, where you can get high quality locally sourced vegetables, fruit, diary, eggs, fish, etc. In

I've lived in some places where you can find local-farmer markets, where you can get high quality locally sourced vegetables, fruit, diary, eggs, fish, etc. In some places they're cheaper than store-bought, in others they're competitively priced or more expensive. My point being that you don't always have to choose between the extremes of storebought v. self-grown. Part of my family participates in a local collective that buys local produce directly from producers in bulk, and in such a way they get cheap produce and can offer good prices to producers (because the middle-man is cut out). You might have something like that where you live.