The "good food movement" is swiftly sweeping across the nation, and locally sourced foods are increasingly finding their way into more markets and onto more plates-and with the demand, so, too, comes a demand for something else.

This movement is creating unavoidable cracks in local food markets' pavement, cracks that are waiting to be filled by a maverick, industry-leading business spirit.

Huge gaps exist between corporate- and community-supported food sources, between industry- and nonprofit-backed farming enterprises, and within individual farmers' markets. It is in these gaps that...