fter her two-year stint as a CSA farmer, DeLind (1999) was also disappointed to find
the ideal of an alternate market choice to be crowded out by the reality of working within the
capitalist framework. She said the CSA became “an alternate market arrangement rather than a
partial alternative to the market economy” (p. 5). Contrary to the original intentions of the founding farmers, according to DeLind (1999), the idea of community took a backseat to both
consumer and shareholder convenience.