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Range of fresh vegetables for sale at the weekly fruit and vege open air market in the Wilson carpark on Willis St, next to UStay accomodation, Sunday morning.
Whole market is about twice the size shown in the photo.
Most of the sellers are Asian, and drive their trucks in from Otaki, Levin, Kapiti. Some of the produce on offer is from wholesale markets, not necessarily locally grown or grown by the family group selling it.
Rosa Salidas, 52, has lived in Pilsen for 28 years, selling fruits and vegetables with her husband. "Thanks to God, we can now eat, work, live," she says. She hopes her continued prayers will help pull her family of seven through the recession, and allow her daughter to continue classes at University of Illinois at Chicago. On a typical weekday, Salidas earns $40 from her produce-packed truck. Last year, she made more than twice that.
Kohlrabi, which are the weirdest looking tastiest little things (when ready; right now, just leaves, which are neither weird nor tasty).
Most years I'm pretty lousy at growing pickling cukes. This is not one of those years. These monstrously huge plants are giving me about six pickles a day. That is a lot of jars of pickles.
I had a hard time finding a place to stand to take this photo; I couldn't get the whole plant into the frame.
Day 1 of my Metabolic Balance programme: Breakfast consisted of 500g veg which included: peppers, corn, avocado, onion, ancho chilli flakes, garlic, fennel, tomato, and watercress and apple cider vinegar. Read the full blog post here: london-metabolicbalance.com/day-1
Vegetable component, connects to the fish component and permanently receives water loaded with nutrients from the fish farming system. Photo by IITA.
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