The idea of community supported agriculture has not stayed on the farm, but has moved
into other industries. The farms themselves offered other products or teamed with other farmers
to provide an outlet for local food products such as pastured beef, pork, poultry, cheese, and
eggs. This expansion into other product areas created a profit premium of nearly nine percent for
the farms that offered food products beyond vegetables and fruit (Connolly & Klaiber, 2012). In
all of these cases small investors were investing in businesses with the potential of serving and/or
creating a type of community within their local service area.