What and where is a local CSA?

CSA = community supported agriculture

Farmers offer local subscriptions to their produce. Local customers agree to purchase their products.

A CSA eliminates the most vulnerable parts of the supply chain: processing, interstate shipping, storage, distribution, and retail in a confined space. No local farmer is destroying their crops when their customers can meet them in the farm parking area or at a road-side stand or open-air market. Selling direct to consumers means farms don’t have to rely on packaging, refrigeration, and processing facilities that may have closed due to lockdowns. And since fewer people are touching the food (the picker, the packer, and the seller are often the same person on a small farm), you don’t have to worry nearly as much about how well all the people touching your food might have washed their hands.