As a long time organic CSA manager, I want to point out to readers that localharvest.org, which the editor gave as a source for CSA contacts, does NOT vet the CSA listings. As a consequence, a very high percentage of the “CSAs” listed are simple produce reselling schemes. In other words, if you join these CSAs you get vegetables similar to what you’d get at your coop, vegetables that are seldom actually local, vegetables that will probably be from a warehouse, weeks old. Your food dollars are distributed as profits to the businessmen running these schemes instead of being returned to a small farmer who intern invests the dollars into his land and into his local community. It’s really a shame to see such an enlightened movement coopted by business people who take advantage of the naivity of the eating public . I guess it’s business as usual to never give a sucker and even break but in this case, not only does the public get cheated but small farms are being put out of business. Please do join a CSA but please do make sure it is a CSA that has a farmer and a farm and, hopefully, a farm family working at that farm and that your produce is ‘organic’ and FRESH!