community-supported agriculture

noun

com·​mu·​ni·​ty-sup·​port·​ed agriculture

: a system in which a farm is supported by local consumers who purchase prepaid shares in the farm's output which they receive periodically throughout the growing season

And they run a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program that this year will supply 400 local families with boxes of fresh produce … every week.

—Casey Miner

—abbreviation CSA

Examples of community-supported agriculture in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The company’s dude ranch is complemented by a garden and community-supported agriculture program. —Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014

Word History

First Known Use

1987, in the meaning defined above