We get eggs from a friend who gets them by a farm she passes when visiting family around Wingham. They're free range, mostly eating what they find, and at $1.50 they're a steal. They are quite different than "organic" eggs we've seen as the large "organic" shops meet the letter of the definition of organic, but not the spirit.
It's yea old debate support organic or local? as you can rarely get both. But we'll support a small local producer over a multinational "organic" one any day of the week.
How much pollution do you create driving around to get this stuff? For us - we get Oak Manor products via ONFC (Ontario Natural Food Co-Op - so it's gets trucked from New Hamburg to Toronto and back to KW) but the 100 Mile challenge made it clear that it's worth the drive for us as we're going thru more grains than ever (we made home-made pasta a few days ago that was pretty good - the next batch will be 100% local with wheat and spelt. But frankly, I live on my bicycle and we don't drive much at all - so it seems insane to go driving around for eggs or whatever. In that regard Bailey's is a great idea.
Yesterday we drove a fair bit to pick local blueberries. Was it worth the drive and all the pollution to spend and hour picking and save about $20 compared to buying it from the same vendor at the market?
In some ways the 100 Mile challenge is such a warped constructed - warped by how cheap transportation is and how our society mis-fuctions. We would have local choices for many of the things we want (white flour, oils) and products from further than 100 mi. But this is educational. If anyone knows of a source for sorghum molasses I'd like to know! I might try growing some next year just for the hell of it (grind the seed into flour and boil down the stalks for molasses. It seems to have been a staple over 100 years ago - before lots of cheap maple syrup and honey or cane sugar.