Rural queer studies, viewed through the lens of relational agriculture, offer critiques of heteropatriarchal norms in farming and highlight strategies used by queer farmers to manoeuvre discrimination and thrive in rural areas. This paper responds to recent calls for further scrutiny of the experiences of gender and sexually underrepresented groups in community-supported agriculture (CSA). It investigates the empowerment of rural queer people in CSA Guadiana, South Portugal, through the experiences of 12 queer members. I collected data through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and a focus group and analysed them through open coding, followed by focused coding. Results indicate that CSA Guadiana, despite not originally designed for this purpose, facilitates various forms of empowerment and active engagement among queer members, particularly influenced by the leadership of queer producers and recurrent gatherings in queer-owned farmland. Three key lessons of queer empowerment in CSA Guadiana emerge from the analysis and contribute to debates on the politics of recognition, queer community action and visibility in the rural context: (i) self-confidence to perform queerness may be restricted to a selective rural community; (ii) partnerships between producers and co-producers may enable reciprocal queer empowerment; and (iii) queer leadership in agri-food community action may quietly represent gender and sexual diversity in the countryside. These findings offer the rural queer literature novel insights into the complexities, contradictions and limitations of empowerment experienced by queer farmers, artisanal food producers and consumers in a rural CSA.

从关系农业的角度来看，农村酷儿研究对农业中的异父权制规范提出了批评，并强调了酷儿农民用来操纵歧视并在农村地区蓬勃发展的策略。本文回应了最近关于进一步审查社区支持农业 (CSA) 中性别和性代表性不足群体的经历的呼吁。它通过 12 名酷儿成员的经历，调查了南葡萄牙 CSA 瓜迪亚纳农村酷儿群体的赋权情况。我通过参与观察、半结构化访谈和焦点小组收集数据，并通过开放编码和重点编码进行分析。结果表明，CSA Guadiana 尽管最初不是为此目的而设计的，但它促进了酷儿成员之间各种形式的赋权和积极参与，特别是受到酷儿生产者的领导和酷儿拥有的农田中经常聚会的影响。 CSA Guadiana 的酷儿赋权的三个关键教训从分析中得出，并有助于关于农村背景下的承认政治、酷儿社区行动和可见性的辩论：(i) 表现酷儿的自信可能仅限于特定的农村社区; (ii) 制片人和联合制片人之间的伙伴关系可以实现互惠的酷儿赋权； (iii) 农业食品社区行动中的酷儿领导力可能悄悄地代表了农村的性别和性多样性。这些发现为农村酷儿文学提供了新的见解，让我们了解农村 CSA 中酷儿农民、手工食品生产者和消费者所经历的赋权的复杂性、矛盾和局限性。