The meaning which CSA-founder Traugher Groh put into the concept came out of what he
felt as a need to share the experience of farming with everyone who understands that our
relationship with nature and the ways that we use the land will determine the future of the
earth , and a feeling that the problems of agriculture and the environment belong not just to
a small minority of active farmers, (but) are the problems of all humanity . (Groh and
McFadden 1997 quoted in DeLind 1999, 5). In line with this, CSA may be viewed as a way
of healing our soils and our souls (Kirschenmann 1998 in DeLind 1999, 5)