Although the analysis so far has explored the various characteristics of CSA farmers
and farms related to farmers’earnings (i.e., the objective production function of the farm
operation) and has advanced explanations, we must also account for farmers’motivations
(the subjective). Farmers may not have high earnings because high earnings do not matter
much to them. This possibly is in direct contrast to capitalist rationality: “The only
possible motivation for putting money into circulation on a repeated basis is to obtain
more of it at the end than was possessed at the beginning” (Harvey 1999, 13). As Mooney
(1988, 4) noted, “Other logics persist, sheltered by the discipline of hard work and the
sanctity of private property.”