community-supported agriculture

[ kuh-myoo-ni-tee suh-pawr-tid, suh-pohr- ]

noun

1. a system by which people purchase a share from a local farm and periodically receive vegetables and other agricultural products throughout the farming season.

Word History and Origins

Origin of community-supported agriculture¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

Signing up for a Community-Supported Agriculture program means getting a box of produce from local farms every week or two.

From Seattle Times

If the overabundance of root vegetables like sunchokes, black radishes and kohlrabi the size of my head is the late-winter scourge of my community-supported agriculture program, the steady supply of braising greens is its redemption.

From Seattle Times

“And if you really get into me, I oppose the industrialization of food, which is problematic on so many levels: for us, the planet, the animals, the soil. If you look at our food system from that perspective and think about how to feed ourselves in a sustainable way in cities, it goes to growing food locally, shopping farmers’ markets and community-supported agriculture.

From Salon

Given her small-business success — she’s doubled the farm’s annual revenue every year since its inception in 2019 — Nafis notes that she and her husband, Chris, a pastor, failed miserably in their previous attempts at farming a small community-supported agriculture farm on a vacant lot in Lemon Grove in 2012 and a 45-acre ranch in Jamul in 2013.

From Los Angeles Times

The couple sells to local grocers who run co-ops and through what is known as a CSA, community-supported agriculture.

From Seattle Times