The overlapping, yet differing practices of putting labor to use,
responding to weather and climate, and managing sharer expectations, ultimately constitute uniquely scaled local foods commodities. Following Mount’s (2012) demonstration of already
existing hybridity in CSA practice, I argue that the farms’ sometimes
more scaled-up shares are not e as DeLind (2010) or Henderson
(2012) would have it e a result or indication of having lost sight
of the aims of the local food movement. Although I did not directly
investigate whether farms met any social and ecological goals
(arguably an unanswerable question), my analysis suggests the
CSAs’ practices are different farm-based responses that still ally
with local foods advocates’ aims.