One enjoyable aspect of the local economy is the collection of delights that can be found if one searches in the right places. Small farmers, bakers, brewers, chocolatiers, etc. are busy practicing their crafts for the love of it, as opposed to grooming their products for market, so more time and energy is put into the bare product, which circulating within a small distance, requires less marketing, , distribution, processing, packaging, among other things. The products are very fresh, seasonal, and idiosyncratic. One finds small treasures to be enjoyed while they last: fresh and delicious milk, chocolate, cheese, melons, among other things. They spread by word of mouth, because they demonstrate quality.
What's more, these products cannot be scaled up. Their locality and uniqueness places constraints on their circulation, so that society's worst economic forces are not able to sniff out the productive centers and transform them into yet more profit centers.
