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I would lean towards local if I knew that the growers were using good soil conservation and rebuilding practices. There is a local grower (several actually, but one in particular) near me that delivers once a week AND picks up the organic compost. The organic compost rules they have read like a book...

I have considered starting with them and may do so at the start of the next growing season. Where I live there are four growing seasons. The cost is but a little more, however the food quality is much higher.

I have read over the last few years that many small growers are trying to move away from the "organic" label due to cooperate buy outs and adulterations of the "organic" label.

That said, I will always buy organic over conventional, but I am trying (it is hard to change this habit too after all I have changed) to buy more in season local produce even when I do this. By subscribing to a service such as those provided by a few local farms and growing my own I may be there in a year or two.

grz