Although it is not community per se, Thompson and Coskuner-Balli (2007a) cited
community supported agriculture as a countercultural response to existing market forces (i.e. thetakeover of the organic produce market by corporate farming interests). The countercultural
aspect of organic food was widespread in the 1960s and was carried forward by a small, but
dedicated group of citizens throughout the ensuing forty years (Belasco, 2007, Roszak, 1995,
Thompson & Coskuner-Balli, 2007a). The idea of organic in the early years was, by default, a
small farmer and a countercultural economic “vote” against corporate food