There has been a huge surge in interest in locally grown fresh organic food, as people have become aware of the environmental costs of transporting food over huge distances, the health costs of eating denatured highly processed food from supermarkets, the improved flavour of fresh locally produced produce, the concern for the plight of small farms and family farmers as industrial scale agricultural enterprises put them out of business, and the desire to reconnect with communities at a social and cultural level.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a community-based way of providing our food, with minimum environmental cost and maximum community gain. It’s a partnership between farmers and consumers, to provide the farmers with a sure income and the consumers with good quality local food. An important aspect of CSA’s is that the risks involved in growing food (drought, storms, pests) are shared between the farmer and consumer. There are no middle people. CSA are well established in the USA, and usually involve an existing family farm.
Here is the lazy option - a link to the Wikipedia entry for community supported agriculture.