NEWS Name-your-price produce: farms let customers pay what they can for fruits and vegetables

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Community-supported agriculture programs offer sliding-scale shares to customers who can choose their payment levelEvery Wednesday during the growing season, Emilyn Sosa picks up a box of produce from a community center in Brooklyn crammed with the week’s harvest. This might include carrots, beets or sometimes kohlrabi, which she cooks up into soups and salads for her family of five. The price? It’s whatever Sosa judges to be fair. For a weekly box, the 33-year-old pays about $15 (£12). If she were to buy a similar amount of fruit and vegetables at a standard supermarket – where the pri ...

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