com·mu·ni·ty-sup·port·ed agriculture
Definition of community-supported agriculture
: a system in which a farm is supported by local consumers who purchase prepaid shares in the farm's output which they receive periodically throughout the growing season
And they run a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program that this year will supply 400 local families with boxes of fresh produce … every week.— Casey Miner
—abbreviation CSA
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The first known use of community-supported agriculture was in 1987
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