Perhaps these small local suppliers are better, because they can charge boutique prices to the kind of discerning person who doesn't ride the bus to Walmart, bu

Perhaps these small local suppliers are better, because they can charge boutique prices to the kind of discerning person who doesn't ride the bus to Walmart, but drives out to the roadside stand in their SUV and 5 kids and a husband help load the stuff in their coolers. Or they can sell mail-order, or to the suburban farmers markets nearby. The local co-ops are a perennial cult favorite and appeal to epicurean aficionados, but they're not getting equal shelf space at Safeway or enjoying economies of scale and amazing subsidies. Yet.