ou get paid up front but that also means that you have a commitment up front to provide a basket full of fresh, delicious produce. We have a capitalistic model here, and if your subscriber doesn't like it, you are going to lose them. There is a pressure to produce week after week after week. If you compare that to a farmers’ market, you can bring anything you have, some days you have more, some days you have less, so what? There is not the psychological pressure there as with a CSA. You can find CSA farmers out there at night mumbling, “I need more.” (Farmer 15)