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The Changing Face of Community-Supported Agriculture

  1. K. Brandon Lang

Article first published online: 22 JUN 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-486X.2010.01032.x

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Culture & Agriculture

Culture & Agriculture

Volume 32, Issue 1, pages 17–26, June 2010

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Lang, K. B. (2010), The Changing Face of Community-Supported Agriculture. Culture & Agriculture, 32: 17–26. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-486X.2010.01032.x

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  1. Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA

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  1. Issue published online: 22 JUN 2010
  2. Article first published online: 22 JUN 2010

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