Bumblebees let me down on the organic apples front (only NZ apples) 
so I decided that there must be a more energy efficient way of getting the apples to this side of the world. I briefly toyed with the idea of putting apple orchards in orbit around the planet, or maybe relocating NZ to the Atlantic just west of Ireland.
On the other hand of course, English apple growers could come up with better ways of storing apples so that we can still eat them out of season. Perhaps they do already but like everything else English, it just doesn't happen.
Talking of the cost of food, there's a debate on the ecologist at the moment about whether organic food is a luxury -
www.theecologist.org, which I maintain it is. You don't find poor people buying organic. The old argument is of course that the prices should come down as the organic food industry gets bigger. I really hope so.