CSA Is Rooted in Black History

Reader Contribution by Natasha Bowens
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The introduction of the Community Supported Agriculture concept – which has resulted in over 12,000 wildly popular CSA farms across the country today – is most often credited to European or Japanese models that were first adopted by farms in the U.S. in 1986. But, as with many dynamics of history, there is an overlooked story that tells us the credit belongs to someone else.

As early as the 1960s and 1970s, deep in the heart of Alabama, the concept of community supported agriculture was developing as the brainchild of a pioneer of sustainable agriculture who was raised on his family’s farm and was passionately advocating for what he called “smaller and smarter” farming.

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