Better understanding of CSA members/shareholders.
1) CSA member demographics such as age, education, household income and ethnicity affect the demand for CSA shares and the viability of CSA farms in different places. What are the most important characteristics of CSA members? Are CSA members’ attitudes about sustainability and environmental issues important? Can we measure these attitudes?
2) What are the turnover and retention rates among CSA members? What individual shareholder
characteristics account for differences in these rates across CSA operations? What factors account for the variation in turnover rates across CSA farms? What are the important characteristics of the shares and farms that affect decisions by CSA members to stay or leave?
3) Case studies of shareholder-started farms could provide further information on these special types of CSA farms and their relative rates of succes