Saturday, August 31, 2013

Städtlemarkt (Village Market)

Visiting the village market is is a fairly typical German Saturday morning ritual. Also very typical are its business hours: open from 7.30AM to 12.30PM. Experts usually arrive early for the best quality produce.
Each booth presents a different local or regional fresh produce. All offerings are basically from your next door neighbour: your dairy farmer, your butcher or your bakery, so they can't afford to lack quality. Otherwise word would go around quickly.

There are fruits and veggies, flowers and plants, jams and preserves, breads, cheeses, meats and cold cuts, and variety of liquors and schnapps.
It's a bit more expensive to shop on the market, however, it's located literally two minutes from home, so we don't need to drive there, which makes it a cheap plus eco-friendly option.

4 comments:

  1. Pretty roof design of flowers! Like a sweater.

    Happily, buying veg/fruit from the source is much less expensive than stores. The market by the capitol building is the largest producer-only market in the US. I've never been- too crowded and impossible parking.

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  2. The freshest and the best.

    Would love something like this within a two minute walk of the house.

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  3. I love these local markets. Unfortunately, ours is only open on Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning. I picked up 5lbs of wonderful carrots today...

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  4. there is only one word for: jealousy ;-). But I'm happy for you. Enjoy your Sunday. Today we were on a hike to Mystery Lake, Mt. Seymour. So lovely.

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