Sunday organic market

at the Centris Walk in Quezon City

on the clearest of days

…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

to be continued… Eat fresh!

Organic produce: this is from “The Organic Cooperative” which is a member of the Organic Producers and Traders Alliance (OPTA). I buy organic produce and products from them (well, there’s only one stall that’s a member of OPTA in the market where i go) and organic green leafy from “Eli’s Garden”, which has been recommended by friends who are in-the-know (organic lettuce are not available in the other organic store) both in the same Sunday half-day organic flea market — when i have the time to go there.

(mostly, not; sigh)

The other stores that claim to be “organic” do not necessarily truly sell organic produce; so, don’t believe every vendor or every label that says “organic”.

Ok….

Not easy to blog everyday, especially when you cannot write about most of what you’re doing. Thank you for putting up with this blog. I’ll be back in a bit…well, not a bit — much later. There’s across- town traffic; that takes up a lot, a whole lot of waste of time because when you’re in transit, urgent memos cannot be written (well, some can write in those conditions; i can’t, long writing on board a vehicle with stops and go’s and acceleration make me dizzy, can’t write long memos on metro traffic) you try to write them in your head while on the street (won’t have to drive this time), but everyone knows: That’s not the same as actually writing them.