These are learned behaviors. It's not something that happens just because of your gender. For Science Today, I'm Steve Tokar. This is Science Today. It's actually a form of subscription farming, where a group of consumers pay a farmer up front for weekly deliveries of produce.
Consumers get a reliable source of fresh food, and farmers get ready cash.
It's set up so that both consumers and farmers are taking the risk, and they both benefit from the bounty of the arrangement. Besides giving farmers a measure of financial security, Feensta says that CSAs give city folks a better sense of where their food is coming from. More than that, says Feenstra, CSAs re-establish a sense of community. For Science Today, I'm Steve Tokar. This is Science Today.