farmer's markets,fruit stands,corn carts,roadside seafood...

[MC Moot]

I love these things dearly...and the farmers market is also the flea market here...(y)...o.k the roadside lobster may be a bit dodgy...but in North America it's as close to a "cultural" experience one can have aquiring food stuffs...serves to remind how unnatural the cold flourescent wasteland of the "supermarket" is...in Spain a little traveling market would roll through town once a week and it was magic...the mercato is where it's at...you know the idea of big fridges and freezers and huge shoping carts is so wrong...I want to live in a location where I could shop for evening meal daily and enjoy the experience...like I did in Steveston...I guess I should try and relocate somewhere near Granville Island or Pike Place Market...:rolleyes:

[abcdefz]

The largest farmer's market/flea market in California is about a mile from me. Plus, I ride my bike, so I don't have to pay for parking. :)

But my favorite one was downtown Sacramento, under the freeway. It was amazing, plus they had really nice flowers dirt cheap.

[MC Moot]

The largest farmer's market/flea market in California is about a mile from me. Plus, I ride my bike, so I don't have to pay for parking. :)

But my favorite one was downtown Sacramento, under the freeway. It was amazing, plus they had really nice flowers dirt cheap.

Nice...in Vancouver there was a artist/back yard produce anarchists collective that set up under a bridge/overpass on Commercial drive every sunday…totally open to trade and barter as well as strait commerce it was really cool…then the municipality shut it down…permits,liscences etc,etc….(n)

[abcdefz]

I never saw that.

I used to get produce and stuff in the Chinatown area. It was fairly close.

Sometimes on... damn. that island made from reclaimed a garbage dump. Where there was a glass blower and stuff. Granville?

[alien autopsy]

fucking a i love farmers markets. that collective thing in vancouver sounds cool. i think its great the these things are starting to become more popular. its good for the farmers, its good for the collective awareness and health of the people. we need to be concerned about what are food actually is, and where it comes from. i cant wait till springtime to hit up the local farmers markets! im trying to find a job delivering for CSA's in the area, helping out with their markets, and also doing some farm work while i start up my own business. got a couple of leads, but nothing in stone.

[MC Moot]

I never saw that.

I used to get produce and stuff in the Chinatown area. It was fairly close.

Sometimes on... damn. that island made from reclaimed a garbage dump. Where there was a glass blower and stuff. Granville?

Yep...http://www.granvilleisland.com/en/public_market

Complete tourist trap,everything overpriced but awesome,regardless....home to OPUS the greatest art supply vendor in the land...and the Emily Carr campus and the Pacific Institute of Culinary Study...with all different types of student run vendors,baker,butchers,full service restaurants and bistros....ohhhh good times...trick is to go when it's pissing rain,which is 4 out of 7 Vancity day's and the crowds would be a bit thinned...(y)

[abcdefz]

It was the first produce place I hit because the landlord talked it up. And since I didn't know Canadian prices, I didn't think anything about
it at first. Then, shopping more locally, I kinda went, "Heyyyyyyyy waitaminute!" :D

I really liked watching the glass blower work.

[MC Moot]

fucking a i love farmers markets. that collective thing in vancouver sounds cool. i think its great the these things are starting to become more popular. its good for the farmers, its good for the collective awareness and health of the people. we need to be concerned about what are food actually is, and where it comes from. i cant wait till springtime to hit up the local farmers markets! im trying to find a job delivering for CSA's in the area, helping out with their markets, and also doing some farm work while i start up my own business. got a couple of leads, but nothing in stone.

I'm down with it...power to the people and the beets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez

(y)

[alien autopsy]

i think that the local organic movement has so much potential for this country. it could really change a lot.

[alien autopsy]

i guess i shouldnt say "this country", it has the potential to change the world! there arent many movements which encompass so much diversity, on so many scales. the goals are so huge, but so attainable, and its all small steps, personal and for the health of every thing!
sorry, i get excited thinking about it.

[b-grrrlie]

Here in Stockholm there's farmers market in the city (southside) every autumn. I usually bunk up pretty well, especially stuff that I haven't grown myself. And eggs and cheese and bread... The season here is pretty short tho.

[MC Moot]

I forgot to add pick your own fruit/produce farms...mostly because around here you'd have to road trip to the Okanagan for anything other than local early strawberry's and then the pumpkin patch in fall...(y)

[HEIRESS]

I try and go on an okanagan road trip each summer. between fruit stands, wineries, and a lake around every corner to go jump in, its the best time ever.

[alien autopsy]

Here in Stockholm there's farmers market in the city (southside) every autumn. I usually bunk up pretty well, especially stuff that I haven't grown myself. And eggs and cheese and bread... The season here is pretty short tho.
mmmm...farm fresh eggs, fresh bread....homemade cheeses...is there a lot of greenhouse/hoophouse gardening in sweden??

[abcdefz]

Here in Stockholm there's farmers market in the city (southside) every autumn. I usually bunk up pretty well, especially stuff that I haven't grown myself. And eggs and cheese and bread... The season here is pretty short tho.



That's one of the lovely things about California.

Year 'round, baby. (y)

[na§tee]

there is a glasgow farmer's markets every saturday - on the 1st and 3rd saturday of each month it is in the southside, on the 2nd and 4th it is in the westend/partick.

they are fab.

you can get boar burgers! and lovely home-made porridges. jams and cheese and venison and oatcakes, duck, goose and quail eggs, organic soaps and smoked trout and organic wine and baking and bouvrage and mmmmm. nommers.

[alien autopsy]

i was walking through spain a few years back and several times saw the "bread guy" roll through town in his wagon. one day i was just sitting in this plaza, drinking some juice and he rips into the center of this walled, midievel town and just starts laying on his horn! it was so loud! and it was like a saturday (or maybe a sunday...) and only like 730 am. all the sudden everyones doors opened up and kids came running into the streets to pick up bread for the day. it made me smile big. i wish we had something like that around here:(
another time, in another town i almost got ran over. i saw the bread guy trading bread for beer, or maybe the dude paid and just gave the bread guy a beer. i smiled and walked by, poked into a panaderia and bought some kind of ridiculously good pastry and when i stepped outside the bread guy came within inches of taking me out. he was either pissed i didnt buy his bread, drunk, or just driving way too fast on a very tight little road.

i miss spain a lot.

[b-grrrlie]

mmmm...farm fresh eggs, fresh bread....homemade cheeses...is there a lot of greenhouse/hoophouse gardening in sweden??
There is quite a bit, especially lettuce and tomatoes. And as the season is short and greenhouse keeping isn't that
eco-friendly they're actually encouriging (sp?) people to buy Spanish tomatoes, even tho they have to travel a bit...

[alien autopsy]

the season is short as in, theres 6months of darkness? or short just in temperature? do you get a lot of sunny days?

pardon my geographical igrnoramousness

[MC Moot]

I try and go on an okanagan road trip each summer. between fruit stands, wineries, and a lake around every corner to go jump in, its the best time ever.

yes,yes...Viva la Naramata!...steer clear of Peach fest though...:)

[MC Moot]

i was walking through spain a few years back and several times saw the "bread guy" roll through town in his wagon. one day i was just sitting in this plaza, drinking some juice and he rips into the center of this walled, midievel town and just starts laying on his horn! it was so loud! and it was like a saturday (or maybe a sunday...) and only like 730 am. all the sudden everyones doors opened up and kids came running into the streets to pick up bread for the day. it made me smile big. i wish we had something like that around here:(
another time, in another town i almost got ran over. i saw the bread guy trading bread for beer, or maybe the dude paid and just gave the bread guy a beer. i smiled and walked by, poked into a panaderia and bought some kind of ridiculously good pastry and when i stepped outside the bread guy came within inches of taking me out. he was either pissed i didnt buy his bread, drunk, or just driving way too fast on a very tight little road.

i miss spain a lot.


I'm there every summer to stay with my pops and work the orchard for a few hours a day then just play for 6 weeks...:p...but my fave travelling vendor was the guy in the truck that looks like a coffee truck but the sides open up and it's all different olives on one side and pickled vegetables on the other...tiny pickled tomatoes stuffed with jamon and goat cheese...oh yeah....:)

[alien autopsy]

food is so good in spain, their cheeses are delish. especially their goat and sheeps cheeses! sounds like you have the hookup! where in spain do you hide out? sounds like your father is running the good life out there. good for him, and you!

[MC Moot]

http://www.spain.info/TourSpain/Destinos/TipoIII/Datos+Generales/Q/NW/0/Santiago+de+la+Ribera.htm?Language=en

http://www.murciaturistica.es/PORTAL-2002/nautico/fotos/0303_g.jpg

:D

[alien autopsy]

you lucky bastard

[MC Moot]

por favor mi amigo...no es hibrido...soy un hijo de espana!...;)

[alien autopsy]

bueno. mucho suerte. yo soy gringo, no hablo mucho espanol. pinche loco

[pshabi]

When I was a kid, we used to grow sweet corn on my grandma's farm. We'd go "up the road" and sell it for, I think, $3 / dozen or something ridiculous. That shit was da bomb.

Our neighbor used to grow tomatoes and other stuff in his garden. He'd pull a card table out in the lawn in the summer and put tomatoes and some other fresh shit on it by the road. He'd leave a sign for the price and a coffee can with a hole cut out on top for people to drop money in. I never once heard him complain about having food or $$$ stolen. We're talking '87-'89 ish.

Indiana wasn't all that bad now that I'm raising kids of my own in Sin City.:eek:

[MC Moot]

Our neighbor used to grow tomatoes and other stuff in his garden. He'd pull a card table out in the lawn in the summer and put tomatoes and some other fresh shit on it by the road. He'd leave a sign for the price and a coffee can with a hole cut out on top for people to drop money in. I never once heard him complain about having food or $$$ stolen. We're talking '87-'89 ish.

Nice...I love that jazz...out on many of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia the local hippy farmers do the same,except they have these mailboxes all painted colorfully with little signs at the begining of the drive into their property...so one will have fresh eggs,a little up the road artisan bread with a little note saying "if you come back at 4pm there will be pie"...:D...and another would have honey in the comb and the jar...just fantastic you know?..the fresh egg one was the best cause sometimes you'd score and sometimes not....luck of the draw or early bird get's the eggs kind of thing....(y)

[alien autopsy]

its always good to see those signs