Talk:Community-supported agriculture

General lack of citations in Structure section

Certain marked statements in the **Structure** section have no citation while making very strong claims (e.g. "The cost of a share is usually competitively priced when compared to the same amount of vegetables conventionally grown – partly because the cost of distribution is lowered." / "Typically CSA farms are small, independent, labor-intensive family farm" / "Most CSAs are owned by the farmers while some offer shares in the farm as well as the harvest"). While these may be covered ibid., that should likewise be referenced. The fact that this section looks like it's original research means that this could bear putting an Original Research tag on the page. Thanks for your discussion on this matter. Geoff (talk) 09:49, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Dubious socio-economic model

A citation is needed from a reliable source to back up the unverified claim that CSA is a socio-economic model. It seems more like an economic model. Toddst1 (talk) 16:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Given no objection or discussion in 1 month, the dubious statement has been removed. Toddst1 (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Dubious European origin

The uncited claim "Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland and Japan." contradicts the citation labeled only as Robyn Van En which states "The origin of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept, the partnership between consumers and farmers, can be traced to Japan in the mid-1960s." Toddst1 (talk) 14:38, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

History of CSAs (unexplained removal of content)

The following paragraph has been removed multiple times from this article, without discussion:

Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land. In the 1960s groups of consumers and farmers in Europe formed cooperative partnerships to fund farming and pay the full costs of ecologically sound and socially equitable agriculture. In Europe, many of the CSA style farms were inspired by the economic ideas of Rudolf Steiner and experiments with community agriculture took place on farms using biodynamic agriculture. In 1965 mothers in Japan who were concerned about the rise of imported food, the loss of arable land, and the migration of farmers into cities started the first CSA projects called Teikei (提携) in Japanese – most likely unrelated to the developments in Europe.

Please discuss... Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:57, 24 May 2013 (UTC)