CEAGESP market in São Paulo

The CEAGESP agricultural market in São Paulo supplies the city, whose metro area houses nearly 20 million people, with products from all over the continent. Restaurant and supermarket shoppers alike, as well as brave individual food enthusiasts, come to make their way through the boxes piled high with corn, parsley, starfruit, persimmons, mangoes, and countless other kinds of produce to get fresh picks at pre-retail prices. In a city often described as a ‘concrete jungle’, CEAGESP in many ways represents the intersection of the urban sprawl with the vast agricultural area that surrounds it. Here are some photos from my visit.