On Pico island in the Azores I don't see any fruit & vegetable stands and farmer's markets. That is a surprise, because I always took farmer's markets and even roadside fruit & vegetable stands for granted. Be it a rich or a poor country I always found those. Not in the Azores. I would like to know why and are there any in the continental Portugal? I understand that most people in the Azores are rather poor and that most of them probably grow their own variety of vegetables, but why don't they sell the excess or make a small living from fruit stands and the essential Farmer's Markets? Really strange I find none of those on Pico. At least I haven't found one yet and if there are some, they are really well hidden from public eye.