We noticed on our arrival this year a big push for organic goods. The city now has a weekly Saturday morning organic market. We have so far made each one of them.
Date: 05/12/2012
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This is the company owned by the young woman who gives me a spiritual inspiration on the bus home from Morelia, after my harrowing experience in Patzcuaro - read about it in that section.
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The smell's killing us so it's time to do something here besides just look.
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The accents are predominantly South LA at this market. Not much Spanish spoken in this crowd.
Date: 05/12/2012
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It's more good than bad because the bigger money can keep the organic effort going hopefully. It's always a fear though if not competition like this, certainly the massive big box effort poses a threat to cross-town historical city municipal market.
Date: 05/19/2012
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If the massive deep pockets of investors like Mega, Chadraui, Bodega (re-branded Wal-Mart) don't take down the city market, then perhaps nothing will and it will linger on for a few decades more.
Date: 05/19/2012
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Certainly comparing these breads and vegetables to the fruit fly breeding ground we encountered shopping at Bodega (aka Wal-Mart), it's easy to see why convenience doesn't always trump the freshness we've only experienced here.
Date: 05/19/2012
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Hint to casual passers-by - do not hinder sister Suzanne in her completion of this weekly transaction. (You have been warned ;-)