When Mommy was still based in the Philippines, we feasted on her sinigang (thin soup based in lightly sour vegetable broth), she just picked the kamias fruits outside the window to make the sinigang broth — she doesn’t use any of those powdered, chemical-based manufactured products.
Mommy knows how to make a garden flourish and become bountiful on its own —-
and to make all good, living things around her grow.
(still an at-the-moment series, working exam sheets and edits of thesis at home)
…you can’t miss it — see the three-storey-high flying-saucer-like or mushroom-like structures that provide shade, and the red two-storey-high rectangular pillars for … wind-direction…? or to catch the light
EDSA corner Quezon Avenue. Or, on Q Av from the east side of EDSA, it’s to your left… or, it’s your left-east corner of EDSA-Q Av, or the south-east corner of EDSA-Q Av. Market hours Sundays only 5:30 am to 2pm; if you’re walking, you can get in anytime, no problem; if in a vehicle, you have to get in at 6am (very early) or 12 noon (very late) or past 12 when most shoppers have left. Otherwise: if you’re getting in between 8am and 12 noon, it’s bedlam, unless you have a driver “idling” for you double-parked/ obstructing/ in the middle of the entrance – exit, walkway/ easement/ road — nakahambalang (blocking everyone and everything who has a right of way because they’re stalking anyone and anything who might leave a slot to give them space)
you have to choose your stalls by referral, not all are truly organic, even if labelled so — Eli Organics and The Organic Cooperative by OPTA come highly recommended; those who eat raw leaves — choose the “certifiedly” organic
