One way to get locally grown produce is to become a member of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). A CSA os of a group of individual people who promise to support a farm. This way,the farmland becomes the community's farm,with both the farmers and the consumer sharing benefits and risks. Community Supported Agriculture began in the early 1960s in Europe and Japan as an answer to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of farm land.Over the last 20 years in the U.S.,CSAs have become a popular way for people to buy local,seasonal food directly from a farmer.