It increases its spatial reach by sourcing from
partner farms to manage shareholder expectations. But LRF now
also emphasizes on-farm production with its own hoophouse. At
SRCSA and STF, farmers increased on-farm production with hoophouses as well and they pursued more direct interactions with
shareholders. But both have also sourced from partner farms. All
the farms also scale differently between one another. In general, at
LRF the CSA commodity travels farther, comes from multiple farms,
and shareholders do not meet the grower, while at SRCSA and STF,
the farmers and food are symbolically and materially more well known.