CSA programs can generally be described as Farmer-driven,
Consumer-driven, Farmer Cooperatives, or Farmer-Consumer
Cooperatives (18). In Farmer-driven CSAs, the farmer is responsible for
making most of the management and production decisions. This is the
most prevalent type of CSA in the United States. In the Consumer-driven
CSA, a farmer is hired to grow the produce that the consumers want. Most
day-to-day production activities, however, are still the responsibility of the
farmer. Farmer Cooperatives pool together the resources of two or more
farms in the same area, allowing them to offer a wider array of goods. Like
Farmer-driven CSAs, it is the farmers’ responsibility to manage farm
operations. Finally, in the Farmer-consumer cooperative, the land is coowned between the farmer and members and almost all the
responsibilities are shared between the two groups (18). Within these
arrangements, some CSAs request or, less often, require their members to
work on the farm for a given number of hours per week. This is usually
done in exchange for a partial- or full-price reduction in the share cost