Local/organic food.....

Why do you have to pay more money for local food? Is it me or do other people think of this also? They don't have to ship their food to sell it locally, therefore it should be cheaper, right? They usually man their rented farmer market space themselves, so they don't need to hire someone to man it. Where's the logic except that they too want their fair share of the financial pie and price their food accordingly. I would love to be able to afford to buy local food a lot more than I do, but I can't and it just makes me a little angry that the local farmers are pricing their food items the way that they do. I also don't like the fact that organic food items are two to five times the amounts than non-organic. I can only hope that people with more money to spend buy local and organic foods long enough so that the prices come down to a more sensible level and I too can afford to eat a more healthy diet.