Community economic rents are purely consumer surplus (from consumers paying more for what they are receiving than they otherwise would), made possible by (1) the discursive ideal of AFNs (e.g., local food, civic agriculture, ecological agriculture, and/or embedded economies) stemming from a number of consumer motivations and/or (2) the farmer determining the produce in the share and therefore including produce that consumers may not normally purchase. The first is a commodification of the intimate relationship between producer and consumer and/or the other integral components of CSA. Commodification may include an economic valuation of many member benefits that are not normally quantified—such as the weekly newsletter with news from the farm and recipes, access to special you-pick days and farm events, and the proximity of local neighborhood delivery sites—and the ecological conservation and labor practices of the CSA. 3 If CSAs charge a price that covers labor, ecologically oriented practices, and other costs that are associated with the box and its delivery, and that price is higher than the average rate of profit, they are capturing community economic rents. Community economic rents can theoretically substitute for organic economic rents if farmers forgo certification and still capture economic rents similar to those by certified farms. In short, community economic rents are possible through the commodification of discursive and material elements of civic agriculture and allow the farm unit to retain more surplus value. Yet while farms may capture community economic rents, there is also a flip side to how surplus value can be distributed.