That has changed and 80% of organic food sales are now distributed by corporate food
conglomerates (Thompson & Coskuner-Balli 2007a). CSA farmers have managed, according to
Thompson and Coskuner-Balli (2007a) to create a unique market niche by “aggressively
reasserting the countercultural values and ideals that originally animated the organic food
movement” (p. 136). Thompson and Coskuner-Balli (2007) said CSAs were reasserting the
emphasis on fresh, organic produce. Even though corporate food interests could easily grow
more food, they could not compete with CSAs in terms of “the sensory appeal of just-harvested
produce, face-to-face personal relationships between farmers and consumers, and the sense of
direct participation in a tightly-knit community network” (Thompson & Coskuner-Balli, 2007a,
p. 139).