Another early morning, this time to visit the weekly farmers’ market in Puerto Ayora. What a feast to behold. First off, You can buy a chicken or a cockeral if you are running low on farmyard animals! and eggs come in different colours! Not since about 1982 have I seen anything other than a brown egg. Here you can get white and blue as well.
The fruit and veg are amazing. Fresh and it all looks tasty. Such variety that I miss in the UK. The strawberries are enormous. There is citrus, grapes, apples bananas and plantains- cooking bananas. As we walked into the market there was a woman making a sort of doughnut/fritter from plantain.
And the variety of food available didn’t end here. There was all kinds of meat and fish. In Britain a red snapper is about 25cm, if you are lucky! Not here, really huge. The pork was cut for you however you want it, ans there were lovely plump corn fed chickens too!
Delicious street food was available being freshly cooked from scratch. The ‘sugar cane’ empenadas looked amazing, unfortunately the diet is still part of life for me, and they had no Aspartame/sugar replacement empenadas. It is a lovely market with produce grown on the islands and in Ecuador.
The islands are small, the population size ‘controlled’ but growing, and these islands are currently 97% ‘pristine’. In order to keep it that way, the Charles Darwin Foundation is working on a project, Galapagos Verde 2050. Its aim to make the islands’ farming sustainable by 2050.