This is great during harvest season. Where I am at in Michigan every little town has its farmers markets on weekends and the wife and I take advantage of them even though we grow a lot of our own. Even Detroit has a monstrous farmers market. But these markets are only up and running from June thru October.

What happens the other 7 months of the year in areas that dont have multiple harvests each season?

How about starting canning co-ops? Beef, pork and chicken co-ops?

The key to victory to me, outside the political arena, is to set up a competing, parallel economy that serves all our daily needs. Food, medicine, banking, education all run by local co-ops.