{"id":238514,"date":"2025-05-12T18:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/the-bastardization-of-the-csa-name-cooking-up-a-story\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:13:24","slug":"the-bastardization-of-the-csa-name-cooking-up-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=238514","title":{"rendered":"The Bastardization of the CSA Name \u2013 Cooking Up a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Bastardization of the CSA Name - Cooking Up a Story\" class=\"wp-image-44564\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/07\/The-Bastardization-of-the-CSA-Name-f-720x405.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/07\/The-Bastardization-of-the-CSA-Name-f-720x405.jpg\" alt=\"The Bastardization of the CSA Name - Cooking Up a Story\" class=\"wp-image-44564\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">July 20, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Birth of Community Supported Agriculture<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/casfs.ucsc.edu\/documents\/Teaching%20Direct%20Marketing\/4.1_CSA_History.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms<\/a> began in the U.S in 1986. They existed much earlier in Japan, and then Europe. In the U.S., they are tied to the biodynamic movement and Rudolf Steiner\u2019s non-chemical approach to agriculture production. While CSA\u2019s were not certified organic\u2014the early farms predated <a href=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/the-organic-certification-process\">the arrival of the organic label<\/a>\u2014they largely embodied that spirit. Protecting the land, the farmer and the local community were among their core values. The CSA was always more than just a financial contract between buyer and seller.<\/p>\n<p>A CSA is a direct relationship between the farmer and the eater. No intermediaries. It\u2019s a novel way for the eater to help the farmer meet their ongoing production expenses by paying for their membership in advance. In return, the eater is rewarded with fresh grown food at an affordable price and produced in a manner consistent with the values of its members. The relationship is largely transparent and mutually beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>But CSA\u2019s are not for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The achilles heel of the CSA has always been its inflexible menu of foods and limited selection. After all, we are mainly talking about perishable and seasonally grown products in a given area. Good luck suppling CSA members in Minnesota with those leafy greens in the winter or with locally grown citrus.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enter the CSA Bastards<\/h2>\n<p>In today\u2019s NYT, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/20\/dining\/csa-farm-share-community-supported-agriculture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When Community-Supported Agriculture Is Not What It Seems,<\/a> a relatively new type of CSA has entered the marketplace. Companies that distribute food from a multitude of sources\u2014some from local farms, but also food from distance sources. Instead of a direct one to one relationship, consumers are buying membership from a single supplier who has aggregated products from many sources, near and far away.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article: <em>\u201cAs demand for local and organic produce has ballooned in the last five years, so have other ideas for connecting farmers to customers. Now, online hubs are using sophisticated distribution technology to snap into the food chain, often using \u201cC.S.A.\u201d to describe what they deliver.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But are these new CSA style companies really CSA\u2019s? What are the defining characteristics of a CSA? For many, it is the direct relationship between the farmer and the eater. No middleman. No retailer. Except for California where they have codified what the term CSA means \u2014along those lines mentioned above\u2014anyone can use the term CSA.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the merits of these more expansive fresh food enterprises, they are not true CSA\u2019s. Their lack of transparency is why food labeling laws are so important. Whether the consumer will ultimately care about the central purpose of the CSA in helping the farmer while benefiting the eater\u2014or not\u2014the CSA name deserves its own trademark in order to protect its unique identity.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Videos<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 20, 2016 The Birth of Community Supported Agriculture The first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms began in the U.S in 1986. They existed much earlier in Japan, and then Europe. In the U.S., they are tied to the biodynamic movement and Rudolf Steiner\u2019s non-chemical approach to agriculture production. While CSA\u2019s were not certified organic\u2014the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[87953,1643,26470,3972],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-238514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-bastardization","tag-cooking","tag-csa","tag-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Bastardization of the CSA Name \u2013 Cooking Up a Story - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=238514\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bastardization of the CSA Name \u2013 Cooking Up a Story - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 20, 2016 The Birth of Community Supported Agriculture The first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms began in the U.S in 1986. 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