Could have posted this in media (since it is) or the Qualia thread (since Joel is referenced in it) but it's mostly about farmers' markets so I'll put it here. I'm sure many saw this in yesterday's Post but wanted to share it here since it discusses the issue of non-local products and farmers' markets with coffee as the central example.
While the bias of the writer is clear, the argument to include products which can't be grown locally seems pretty compelling to me.