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 Casey Miner
Word History
First Known Use
1987, in the meaning defined above