Individual Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiatives are often locally rooted and strongly focused on their own production. They supply their members directly from their own cultivation, creating a stable foundation for regional food systems.
At the same time, gaps or supplementary needs arise throughout the year—this is precisely where TEIKEI can meaningfully connect.
This procurement model is aimed at individual CSAs that:
Here, TEIKEI does not replace their own production but serves as a targeted supplement.
TEIKEI products can be particularly useful where the CSA reaches its limits:
The integration is designed to be as simple as possible and closely aligned with existing practices:
This allows the CSA to continue using its existing organization while integrating TEIKEI where it is practically and conceptually useful.
The TEIKEI supplement can be organized in different ways.
Possible approaches include:
This allows each CSA to decide for itself whether to integrate TEIKEI regularly or only in selected phases of the year to expand its own offerings.
Action months can be particularly useful when a CSA wants to provide its members—as well as their friends and acquaintances—with additional access during certain times of the year, such as before Christmas or during the winter months.
This way, the community can organize fresh fruit and olive oil directly from the farm in the south using the same principle as their own harvest shares: collectively, predictably, and with a direct connection to the origin.
In the future, it will also be possible to represent, offer, and settle the CSA’s own harvest shares via the same Agora or the same community page.
This could eventually create a shared interface where:
This perspective is particularly interesting for CSAs that do not want to replace their existing supply but rather expand it in an organizationally efficient way.
The CSA remains fully independent. Decisions continue to be made internally, and TEIKEI is only integrated where it makes sense for the group.
Key aspects include:
Especially with the future possibility of representing both the CSA’s own harvest shares and supplementary products on the same community page, the CSA’s independence can be maintained while reducing organizational workload.
This model works best when:
Overly complex structures or too many additional products can quickly become overwhelming.
The future shared representation via the Agora should also not introduce unnecessary complexity but rather support the existing process.
This model demonstrates how existing local agricultural initiatives can expand their supply without changing their own identity. Here, TEIKEI becomes a supplementary component within an already functioning community.
In the long term, this could lead to a shared organizational structure where both the CSA’s own harvest shares and supplementary products are visible, orderable, and settleable via the same Agora or community page.
One level up: Procurement Models
Author: Felix Schröder, with assistance from AI (ChatGPT)
Creation: written by Felix Schröder › formatted in Markdown by ChatGPT › published by Felix Schröder › layout adjusted by Claude
Created: 2026-04-10 · Last updated: 2026-04-10 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us