Food with a Farmer's Face: Community-Supported Agriculture in the United States.
A study was conducted to examine the geography of community-supported agriculture (CSA), an alternative to the fossil fuel- and chemical-intensive agribusiness paradigm whereby farmers solicit local members who, for an annual membership fee, receive a share of the harvest throughout the growing seas...
| Published in: | Geographical Review Vol. 97; no. 4; pp. 550 - 565 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
October 2007
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