Yep. Even something simple like bay leaves. I have some from a community garden. Dropped in a couple as normal and you can immediately taste something different compared to store bought leaves.

Too bad local farming is not scalable.

There are things where you don't need scaling, maybe.

Around me there are a lot of those community gardens. It's encouraged by the city, and you can rent a piece of land for yourself.

https://www.lebendige-traditionen.ch/tradition/en/home/tradi...

(with that said, I grew up on a "farm", and as a child had to do a lot of gardening. I understand your enthusiasm about the flavors, but oh heck no, I'll eat the tasteless food for now and happy to not having to deal with all the work in the gardens :) )

Bay leaves that aren't dessicated and crumbled to dust in the sad little spice jar are kind of magical