Community-supported agriculture (Solidarische Landwirtschaft): members pay a self-determined monthly contribution and collect their weekly harvest share at one of several Vienna collection points.
Pickup Score 85
Vegetables are transported to Vienna twice a week to fixed collection points in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 10th, 15th, 17th and 23rd districts; no individual home delivery.
Ochsenherz is Austria's first CSA, a biodynamic Demeter grower near Gänserndorf run as a members' association rather than a business. Members share the harvest and its risk, collecting weekly at fixed points across Vienna.
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Ownership 95 confidence 0.75 (high)
Run as a member association (Verein) with over 300 members who co-determine the farm; members are described as jointly guaranteeing production rather than being customers, a commons-style structure. No publish or last-updated date is shown on this page; year reflects this research's access date (2026), not a confirmed publish date.
Production 88 confidence 0.5 (low)
Biodynamic, Demeter-certified vegetable growing across around 70 varieties; Austria's first CSA, founded 2011. This source is a 2010 blog post, older than 10 years; the farm's current 2026 growing practices and Demeter status were not independently reconfirmed against a more recent source.
Climate 82 confidence 0.55 (medium)
Biodynamic farming avoids synthetic inputs, and produce travels only twice weekly in bulk to fixed collection points rather than via individual home-delivery trips; no formal carbon footprint has been published. No publish or last-updated date is shown on this page; year reflects this research's access date (2026), not a confirmed publish date.
Regional 90 confidence 0.7 (medium)
Farm is in Gänserndorf, about 30km from Vienna; the CSA model is explicitly built around a regional, member-guaranteed vegetable supply distributed to fixed Vienna collection points rather than shipped further. No publish or last-updated date is shown on this page; year reflects this research's access date (2026), not a confirmed publish date.
Price 55 confidence 0.5 (low)
A full harvest share (about 1/300th of the harvest, roughly what an adult eating mostly vegetables daily needs) cost 121 euros per month according to a 2020 membership document; members set their own contribution based on means, and current pricing may differ from this figure.
Self-organized buying collective: around 20 active members order directly from regional producers together, cutting out wholesalers, and pick up their share at the coop's Leopoldstadt space.
Pickup Score 81
Pickup only at Scholzgasse 13, 1020 Wien (Leopoldstadt); weekly member meeting ("Möhrenkränzchen") Tuesdays 18:00-20:00.
Möhrengasse is a small, member-run food cooperative in Leopoldstadt that orders directly from regional producers, avoiding wholesalers entirely. It trades convenience and guaranteed savings for closer producer relationships and full member self-organization.
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Ownership 96 confidence 0.7 (medium)
Run entirely by its roughly 20 active members as a non-profit cooperative; there is no owning company, wholesaler, or intermediary between members and producers.
Stewardship 78 confidence 0.5 (low)
Stated purpose is fair, direct relationships with regional producers rather than profit extraction; part of the nationwide FoodCoops Österreich network of self-managed, non-profit food communities. No publish or last-updated date is shown on this page; year reflects this research's access date (2026), not a confirmed publish date.
Climate 75 confidence 0.45 (low)
Bulk collective ordering direct from regional farms replaces many individual supermarket trips with one shared pickup, though the coop publishes no carbon accounting. No publish or last-updated date is shown on this page; year reflects this research's access date (2026), not a confirmed publish date.
Regional 88 confidence 0.65 (medium)
Deliberately avoids wholesalers and orders directly from regional producers the coop actively recruits. No publish or last-updated date is shown on this page; year reflects this research's access date (2026), not a confirmed publish date.
Price 55 confidence 0.55 (medium)
Reporting on Vienna foodcoops is explicit that cutting out the middleman does not automatically mean cheaper prices than the supermarket; it depends on the product and producer, though negotiated prices often secure farmers a fair income and sometimes benefit members too. No publish or last-updated date is shown on this page; year reflects this research's access date (2026), not a confirmed publish date.