Open Air Markets in Croatia

[xion]

Hi !

I wanted to show you some open air markets we have here in Croatia.
Each city and town in Croatia have several of them and you can buy everything you need, from flowers, fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat products, fish etc.
We also have big supermarkets and stores but we like to buy our groceries in open air markets. Its much more fun.

I'm interested do you still have markets like that, especially in the USA.

Here are some videos, I hope you'll enjoy them.

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[Franny]

These farm markets have beautiful fruits and vegetables as well as farm cheese and many other things.

Here in the US there are farm and organic markets as well movements by the govt to stop them, prompted by the corporate farm interests. Some of the produce are grown with petroleum products and some are organic. A judge recently stated that people in the US do not have the right to own a cow or consume her milk, sell, trade or give it away. Nor do they have a right to the foods they want if the govt says they canʻt have them. So, we have much to do to push back against these corporate creeps. They do it to keep us safe against such things as listeria in cantaloupe -- you know, the fruit grown on factory farms where listeria never grows.

One interesting thing you donʻt see much of in Croatia is obesity; it must be all the simple, clean home prepared foods.

BTW, I have family in and around Split as well as a cousin in Dubrovnic -- beautiful and charming places.

Thanks for the vids

[Billy]

I have been to Croatia many times, A beautiful country. As is Bosnia Herzegovina. It is nice to see you guys living in peace again.

[Aryslan]

Here in the US, there are some areas that have small venues set up for local farmers to come and set up shop once a month or so. Usually, it's just a metal pavilion that's used by the city for community gatherings. The farmers go and set up tables, and depending on where you live, a medium-small crowd forms. By and large, however, I think most Americans would scoff at buying from a market like you're talking about in Croatia. Our government has conditioned the populace to be germ-a-phobic very well.

I, however, love that sort of thing! It's how it should be the world over, imo. Next time you're at market, Xion buy a piece of fruit for me! ^___^

[ktlight]

In Uk, London, we have farmers markets every Saturday. They are well attended.

[Arrowwind]

Those markets in Croatia look wonderful!

Actually in the USA there are quite a few large open markets. Dallas Texas has a huge one that I went to all the time when I was there. Seattle has a huge one also.

There is a reawakening of farmers markets across the nation and many small ones are starting out after many years of communites not having one as folks are waking up to the crisis in farming regarding chemical use... also there is a growing trend to local sustainability. I have spent my whole summer working at a farmers market and selling my wares and produce.

It is not true that people cannot own their own cows in the USA but generally it is not permitted inside city limits. You can drink the milk from your own cow no matter what state you live in but you may not be able to sell it. I don't think there are any laws about giving it away but I am not fully sure on that one.

There is strict hygene laws and dairies that sell milk must be certified by the state. In some states is is permitted to sell raw milk and there are some large dairies that do so such as found in California. On a smaller more local level there is not a state in the nation where someone can't own a share of a goat or a cow that is kept on a farm and be entitled to the milk it produces even raw milk. Generally the requirements for a dairy are so expensive it prohibits small farms from doing small local dairy service. Much milk is transfered under the table so to speak in rural communites, especially raw milk. If you really want it you can probably find it and trade for it, pay for it or own a share in the cow or goat.

Canned goods are also limited for sale unless they are canned in a professional kitchen which again is prohibative for small producers. No canned meat products or vegetable products can be sold unless they are prepared in a certified kitchen. But fruit products are permitted and hence you will see lots of canned jellies and fruits at a farmers market. Now that farmers market is closed for the season people have started coming to my house looking to see if I have any veggies left that Im willing to sell...;)

Wisconson recently retracted such draconian laws and the small producer can now can anything in their home kitchen and sell it as of about 2 years ago. This was a move to help provide more ways for small farmers to make money in the recession. I wish that would happen in my state cause I make the best spaghetti sauce ever and Id love to sell it.

[xion]

Tnx to you all for posting and giving info on markets in your countries. I really appreciate it.

[Siberia9]

Looks identical to the markets in Russia where I have an apartment. There is usually a indoor one that is Govt approved and everyone sells the exact same food from the exact same suppliers. Then all the locals set up tables to sell their farm good's outside. The people that live outside of the city will come in and bring wild grown fruit they have collected (talk about non GMO) and raw milk and cheese as well. Unfortunately there is no such thing as organic in Russia, they don't seem to understand what it is. They seem to think that the use of fertilizer and pesticide etc would cost to much to use and assume it has none, they are mistaken of course. I have never seen one like this in the US myself, in fact I have an Amish farmer that grows all my food to my strict organic guidelines here in the US, rather than eat the govt approved cattle feed. Your vidoes make me wish I had taken some pics of it, especially in the winter when its 30 below zero and they still stand there all day long.

[the trojan]

here in scotland we sometimes get french or euro style markets who travel over and set up in a town ,and is marketed(no pun intended) as an event.
They sell a lot of tack and overpriced sausages......and ........thats it.
or we get the crazy cheap crap british market which does a circuit over the course of the week selling essentials and non essentials to the peasants.

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

We have many such open air markets in every city in Poland :)